The People's Republic of Sturmland is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 893 million Sturmlandische enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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 Galestadt. The average income tax rate is 89.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sturmlandische economy, worth 93.7 trillion Sturmische Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 104,969 Sturmische Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, and the only crimes that get investigated are doughnut heists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sturmland's national animal is the albatross, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Sturmland is ranked 14,678^th in the world and 293^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,130.54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.