The Sovereign Socialist Nation of Patoka is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Wagner-Stock with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 7.954 billion Patokans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gather. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Patokan economy, worth 924 trillion buttons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 116,222 buttons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate, and toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters. Crime is totally unknown. Patoka's national animal is the monarch butterfly, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Universalism.

Patoka is ranked 187,017^th in the world and 1,674^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 35.18 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.