The Union of Soviet States of Slaytania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Stalinovich with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, prohibition of alcohol, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 25.541 billion Slaytanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South of Heaven. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Slaytanian economy, worth an astonishing 16,541 trillion Strummers 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 a breathtaking 647,652 Strummers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive, golden statues of House Giraffes line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District, and nudity is frowned upon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slaytania's national animal is the House Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Stalinism.

Slaytania is ranked 9,743^rd in the world and 274^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 25.5 billion capita.