The Always Happy People of Communist Winnipeg is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Joe Zuken with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 41.259 billion Communist Winnipegers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Suffragette City. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Communist Winnipeger economy, worth a remarkable 6,558 trillion Zukens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 158,964 Zukens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Communist Winnipeg's national animal is the red bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Communist Winnipeg is ranked 5,072^nd in the world and 2^nd in Manitoba for Most Cultured, scoring 157 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.