The People's Republic of El Pasaran is a large, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 128 million El Pasaranians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 64.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The El Pasaranian economy, worth 6.92 trillion pesos 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 Retail, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Average income is 54,066 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Pasaran's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Pasaran is ranked 158,691^st in the world and 506^th in Europeia for Most Influential, scoring 290 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.