The Socialist Paradise of Spruce is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Thomas O'Leary with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate population of 1.777 billion Spruceans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hivetown. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sprucean economy, worth 261 trillion hearts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 147,188 hearts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, new legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending Thomas O'Leary", citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', and the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spruce's national animal is the honey bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Spruce is ranked 21,773^rd in the world and 254^th in Europe for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,118.91 on the Clooney Contribution Index.