The People's Republic of Independent socialists is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 127 million Independent socialistsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Independent socialistsian economy, worth 3.29 trillion Rubloes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 25,880 Rubloes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families burn Leader's latest official photograph to keep warm, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days', and concussed Socialist Tigerball players cannot remember their lineup position. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Independent socialists's national animal is the Socialist Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Independent socialists is ranked 115,551^st in the world and 1,000^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,694.36 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.