The United Socialist States of Malardalen is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 417 million Malardalares 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 Education, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 64.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Malardalenian economy, worth 9.31 trillion Svenska Kronans 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 Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 22,314 Svenska Kronans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs, and blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malardalen's national animal is the Salmon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Malardalen is ranked 236,407^th in the world and 584^th in Saint Osmund for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -5.4 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.