The People's Republic of El Pasaran is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 457 million El Pasaranians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Costa Del Barca. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong El Pasaranian economy, worth 36.3 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 79,501 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... El Pasaranian satellites can detect it, citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee, and El Pasaranian husbands are dead good at fathering kids. 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 304,159^th in the world and 1,374^th in Europeia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.48 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.