The United Socialist States of Sol- is a mammoth, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 5.743 billion Solites 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, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Solarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,297 trillion Ergs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 225,907 Ergs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural Solites stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities, the best spies are positively radiant after completing a big mission, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sol-'s national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sol- is ranked 313,332^nd in the world and 461^st in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -19.03 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.