The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Head with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, daily referendums, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 33.578 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, socially-minded, outspoken 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 sluggish St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 5,502 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 163,883 Jerry Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every St Stephen n Crittersian grocery store, bike rage is all the rage, and increasing numbers of children in St Stephen n Critters have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers. 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 62^nd in the world and 1^st in Hippy Haven for Lowest Crime Rates, with 283.65 Law-abiding Acts Per Hour.