The Matriarchy of Spooky Candle is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Svetlana Sidorova with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 1.975 billion Candles, 1.88 billion of whom are zombies, are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solanas. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Candlean economy, worth a remarkable 1,590 trillion labour vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 132,393 labour vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, and Spooky Candle's citizens often wander into each other's homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spooky Candle's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Contemplating the Void.

Spooky Candle is ranked 54,207^th in the world and 228^th in The Communist Bloc for Nudest, with 199.75 cheeks per square mile.