The Woodhouse Sanctum of Socialist Sloopje is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 27.452 billion Socialist Sloopjeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Socialist Sloopjean economy, worth a remarkable 1,183 trillion $$s a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 43,093 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Warning signs caution Socialist Sloopjeans where they may fall off 'the edge of the world', vets have been drafted in to help "fix" those who fail the parental license exam, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, and autocrats are persona non grata. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Sloopje's national animal is the Laughing swordfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Socialist Sloopje is ranked 178,986^th in the world and 3^rd in Communist Beach for Largest Black Market, with 705 billion Standard Monetary Units.