The United Socialist States of Plandy is a fledgling, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 5 million Plandyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The developing Plandyian economy, worth 147 billion Plands a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,571 Plands, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, surveillance cameras are banned, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plandy's national animal is the Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Plandy is ranked 104,396^th in the world and 11^th in QA nerds for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 45.99 Effective Tax Rate.