The Autogestionist Associations of Suthanimark is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Das Netzwerk with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.845 billion Suthanimarkeren are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wollefurt. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Suthanische economy, worth 804 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 166,112 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, and students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Suthanimark's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Postmodernism.

Suthanimark is ranked 327,672^nd in the world and 804^th in Europe for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 18.78 on the Bus Surprisal Index.