The Community of Smultronstalle is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 412 million Smultronstalleans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 52.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Smultronstallean economy, worth 11.5 trillion kronor a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,965 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Autocrats are persona non grata, remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders, Smultronstalle City has become the number one destination for urban exploration in Europe, and city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smultronstalle's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Smultronstalle is ranked 129,298^th in the world and 957^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 73.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.