The United Socialist States of Stormst is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.43 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Stormstian economy, worth 135 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 94,475 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Suburban residents are told not to panic while hitchhikers swarm their neighborhoods, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, and daring to agree with another politician is grounds for instant dismissal. 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 292,595^th in the world and 591^st in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.24 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.