The Socialist Republic of Slanetria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Alex with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.251 billion Slanetrians 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, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slanetria Citadel. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Slanetrian economy, worth a remarkable 1,644 trillion Dollars 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 significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 146,208 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, and Alex can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slanetria's national animal is the Rock Wren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Slanetria is ranked 273,367^th in the world and 93^rd in The Internationale for Most Primitive, scoring -235.26 on the Scary Big Number Scale.