The United People's Communes of Sovtaskar is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by The Sovtaskar Council with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.407 billion Sovtaskarians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sovtaskarian economy, worth 997 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 Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 155,629 Sovtaskar coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts, and people have become comfortably numb. 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 16,389^th in the world and 185^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 341.61 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.