The Democratic People's Eco-plic of Stressia is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Rex Macsteiner with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, hatred of cheese, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.522 billion Stressiaci are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Svetograd. The average income tax rate is 92.7%.

The strong Stressic economy, worth 633 trillion dengs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 97,144 dengs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Priceless Maxtopian artwork can often be found in executive bathrooms, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays, and only the richest get to see out of their windows. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stressia's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stressia is ranked 256,808^th in the world and 13,793^rd in Balder for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -4.85 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.