The Trust Territory of Socks of All Sorts is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Governor Lynus Threadbare of Argyl with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 21.853 billion Socks are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Threadbare. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sockish economy, worth a remarkable 4,373 trillion Minibucks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 200,126 Minibucks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 584,649 per year while the poor average 54,097, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

The government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres, airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class, and the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of Governor Lynus Threadbare of Argyl. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socks of All Sorts's national animal is the Fluffy Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Reformed Lintism.

Socks of All Sorts is ranked 20,075^th in the world and 7^th in The Regected Realns for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.65 law-abiding acts per hour.