The United Queendom of Stonecroft is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, soft-spoken computers, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 8.549 billion Stonecroftans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westfields. The average income tax rate is 88.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stonecroftish economy, worth a remarkable 1,337 trillion stones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 156,429 stones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units, and on-duty Air Stonecroft flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Stonecroft's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stonecroft is ranked 244,500^th in the world and 5^th in Friends of Dexter for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.46 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.