The People's Republic of Solestepas is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 453 million Solese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rosamonte. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Solestepasian economy, worth 21.7 trillion Raios 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 dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 47,805 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one is quite sure what many government officials look like, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, and Solestepas's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solestepas is ranked 172,282^nd in the world and 719^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 48.89 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.