The People's Republic of Solestepas is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 146 million Solese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Solestepasian economy, worth 3.39 trillion Raios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Trout Farming. Average income is 23,190 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Any machine that shows any glimmer of intelligence is scrapped for parts, jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, they say that Solese made a dessert and called it peace, and there is a law against "filthy foreign food". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher.

Solestepas is ranked 292,216^th in the world and 623^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 47.2 on the Human Development Index.