The Socialist Confederation of Finalia is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.242 billion Finalians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The very strong Finalian economy, worth 483 trillion Labor Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism. Average income is 77,411 Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, Finalian husbands are dead good at fathering kids, the media seems excessively interested in what Leader is wearing this season, and cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown. Finalia's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Finalia is ranked 45,299^th in the world and 2,437^th in Osiris for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,254.52 on the Gilded Widget Scale.