The Republic of Stogumber is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Somersby with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, smutty television, and frequent executions. The compassionate population of 13.78 billion Stogumberians 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, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stogumber Station. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Stogumberian economy, worth a remarkable 1,032 trillion lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,930 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Stogumber Station, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stogumber's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Druidism.

Stogumber is ranked 245,975^th in the world and 16^th in The Scandalian Alliance for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.69 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.