The Republic of 38th NSLeft Revolutionary Guards is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 7.934 billion 38th NSLeft Revolutionary Guardsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 60.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant 38th NSLeft Revolutionary Guardsian economy, worth 67.6 trillion Revolutions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 8,514 Revolutions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 38th NSLeft Revolutionary Guards's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

38th NSLeft Revolutionary Guards is ranked 111,282^nd in the world and 1^st in Communist Party of NationStates for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 168.43 on the Clooney Contribution Index.