The United Socialist States of Symunia is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 67 million Symunians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Symunian economy, worth 1.63 trillion guilders a year, is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,274 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, protestors are soaking piles of guilders in blood to make a point about government incomes, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and light entertainment isn't dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Symunia's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Symunia is ranked 305,127^th in the world and 161^st in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 67.0 million capita.