The United Socialist States of Coastal Schmungolia is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 235 million Coastal Schmungolians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Coastal Schmungolian economy, worth 14.4 trillion Schmungol Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,296 Schmungol Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", citizens hear a diversity of opinions from a range of billionaire-owned corporations, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, and politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Coastal Schmungolia's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Coastal Schmungolia is ranked 64,346^th in the world and 56^th in Talonia for Most Patriotic, with 21.89 flags saluted per person per day.