The United People's Communes of Sovtaskar is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Sovtaskar Council with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cheerful population of 5.98 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 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Sovtaskarian economy, worth 917 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 153,426 Sovtaskar coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, and no one is quite sure what many government officials look like. 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 197,919^th in the world and 604^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Extreme, scoring 14.1 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.