The Eco-Socialist Democracy of Statte is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Sommo Stattarulo with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.095 billion Stattesi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gambe di Mazinga. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stattese economy, worth a remarkable 1,144 trillion Euros 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 187,745 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, kindhearted Stattesi generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries, babies are a small but significant export, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Statte's national animal is the White Viper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mazinganism.

Statte is ranked 224,238^th in the world and 644^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -3.41 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.