The United Socialist States of Stormst is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.56 billion Stormstians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Stormstian economy, worth 139 trillion dollars 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, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 89,664 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen, businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, and convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stormst's national animal is the alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stormst is ranked 312,447^th in the world and 609^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 21.93 on the Bus Surprisal Index.