The People's Republic of Solestepas is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 224 million Solese 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Solestepasian economy, worth 6.62 trillion Raios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 29,559 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New pests have been imported into Solestepas, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, and the state conscripts sociopathic orphan girls to train as professional assassins. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solestepas is ranked 169,766^th in the world and 278^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 540.9 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.