The United Socialist States of Sozschen is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ernest Thalmann Jr with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical population of 4.904 billion Sozschenians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thälmannburg. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sozschenian economy, worth 839 trillion Internationale Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 171,174 Internationale Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Builders across Sozschen are blocked up with orders for new public loos, treason is relative, government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary, and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sozschen's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Sozschen is ranked 20,739^th in the world and 276^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.