The United Socialist States of Consistorium is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 587 million Consistoriumians 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 Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Consistoriumian economy, worth 44.7 trillion Nekters a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,211 Nekters, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, notable individuals are granted land and titles, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, and an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Consistorium's national animal is the Violet Sabrewing, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Consistorium is ranked 290,666^th in the world and 4,258^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.88 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.