The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Head with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 38.911 billion St Stephen n Crittersians 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 morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Circumstance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 7,542 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 193,849 Jerry Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, graffiti graces every city's streets, and therapists can always squeeze in another house-call. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular humanism.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 61,340^th in the world and 8^th in Hippy Haven for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 224,888 Standard Monetary Units.