The Socialist Federation of The Steam-Gardens is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alaska Tanaka with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, vat-grown people, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.569 billion Steam Gardeners 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 large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sky Garden. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Steam Gardener economy, worth 230 trillion Wooded Bolts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 146,644 Wooded Bolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, fat-shaming is now public policy, and films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Steam-Gardens's national animal is the uproot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

The Steam-Gardens is ranked 278,505^th in the world and 1,500^th in Europeia for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -13.64 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.