The Community of Contonomo is a mid-sized, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 50 million Contonomoans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Contonomoan economy, worth 1.20 trillion Communist Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Retail. Average income is 24,080 Communist Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most barbers are also surgeons, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, and bins outnumber trees in city parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Contonomo's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Contonomo is ranked 85,738^th in the world and 729^th in the West Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 111.67 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.