The People's Republic of Solestepas is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 357 million Solese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rosamonte. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Solestepasian economy, worth 14.0 trillion Raios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 39,331 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being dead no longer has any benefits, praying before a battle is a court-martial offence, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solestepas is ranked 152,653^rd in the world and 437^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Developed, scoring 55.82 on the Human Development Index.