The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by The Head with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 43.438 billion St Stephen n Crittersians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Circumstance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but underdeveloped St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 7,803 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 179,645 Jerry Berries, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Saint Circumstance Times is sold out, there's a bright dawn ahead for St Stephen n Critters, it's illegal to be caught on tape, and the media seems excessively interested in what The Head is wearing this season. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular humanism.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 316^th in the world and 1^st in Hippy Haven for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 34,047.9 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.