The People's Republic of Solestepas is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 214 million Solese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Solestepasian economy, worth 6.31 trillion Raios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 29,492 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, new pests have been imported into Solestepas, and inter-species marriages are ignored by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solestepas is ranked 304,003^rd in the world and 513^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 834.03 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.