The Most Serene Republic of Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 18.007 billion Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontentians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontentian economy, worth 509 trillion Refuseds 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is 28,267 Refuseds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent's national animal is the Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent is ranked 144,513^th in the world and 2^nd in Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 68.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.