The United Socialist States of Finandistan is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, devout population of 6.47 billion Finandistanians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amsterkerk. The average income tax rate is 41.3%.

The large but inefficient Finandistanian economy, worth 288 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 44,660 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

New pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, former slaves are free to be oppressed, the nation's apology for those it has executed in the last year has come a little late for some, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Finandistan's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Finandistan is ranked 180,048^th in the world and 7^th in The Crimson Confederacy for Highest Poor Incomes, with 22,080.14 Standard Monetary Units.