The United People's Communes of Sovtaskar is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Sovtaskar Council with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.542 billion Sovtaskarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Undergrowth. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Sovtaskarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,024 trillion Sovtaskar coins 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 156,630 Sovtaskar coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise The Sovtaskar Council on Sovtaskar's coulrophobia epidemic, and people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating. Crime is totally unknown. Sovtaskar's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Sovtaskar is ranked 23,207^th in the world and 142^nd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Average Incomes, with 156,630.17 Standard Monetary Units.