The Confederacy of Squornshelan Remnant States is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Prime Minister Elbrus Kamenev with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.368 billion Confederates 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chalesm. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Squornshelan Remnant Statesian economy, worth 152 trillion springs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,316 springs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Squornshelan Remnant States's national animal is the mattress, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Squornshelan Remnant States is ranked 30,946^th in the world and 818^th in the West Pacific for Longest Average Lifespans, with 82.43 Years.