The 894 Billion Cured of A Slanted Black Stripe is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Reluctant Delegate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.762 billion Slantees 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francisco. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Slanted Black Stripean economy, worth a remarkable 4,807 trillion stripenotes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 186,630 stripenotes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape, The Reluctant Delegate is considering changing the Slanted Black Stripean flag to one with more glitter, and hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms. Crime is totally unknown. A Slanted Black Stripe's national animal is the zebra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is All are Welcome.

A Slanted Black Stripe is ranked 2,589^th in the world and 74^th in The East Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 18,023.72 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.