The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Head with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 37.714 billion St Stephen n Crittersians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Circumstance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 8,873 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an amazing 235,277 Jerry Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions, the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper, anti-government web sites are springing up, and it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular humanism.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 220,388^th in the world and 31^st in Hippy Haven for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 40 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.