The Sultanate of El Sock is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Supreme Poobah and Sultan X with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, prohibition of alcohol, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.84 billion Els 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Laundromat. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.4%.

The thriving un sock economy, worth a remarkable 1,417 trillion munnies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 95,529 munnies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 324,410 per year while the poor average 20,753, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

The government is spending billions of taxpayer munnies to support the Automobile Manufacturing industry, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government, and games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. El Sock's national animal is the lab rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is islam.

El Sock is ranked 251,606^th in the world and 2,584^th in the West Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 751.15 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.