The Confederacy of Stang is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 25.693 billion Lathans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stang City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Stangian economy, worth a remarkable 3,820 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 148,717 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, protests are legal but strictly supervised, cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, and public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stang's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stang is ranked 186,944^th in the world and 1^st in The Zephyr for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 6,470.25 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.