The Protectorate of SocialismIsBetter is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 189 million SocialismIsBetterians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant SocialismIsBetterian economy, worth 3.29 trillion Socialisms 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 Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 17,400 Socialisms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SocialismIsBetter's national animal is the Socialims, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SocialismIsBetter is ranked 174,662^nd in the world and 2^nd in Slavania for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 151.61 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.