The Union of Soviet States of Slaytania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Stalinovich with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 20.215 billion Slaytanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South of Heaven. The average income tax rate is 99.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Slaytanian economy, worth an astonishing 12,821 trillion Strummers a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 634,258 Strummers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, and medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slaytania's national animal is the House Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Stalinism.

Slaytania is ranked 326^th in the world and 4^th in 10000 Islands for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 101.7 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.