The Mystery of A Slanted Black Stripe is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Reluctant Delegate with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, anti-smoking policies, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cheerful population of 33.912 billion Slantees 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, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francisco. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Slanted Black Stripean economy, worth a remarkable 6,248 trillion stripenotes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 184,258 stripenotes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recognizing the Slanted Black Stripean flag qualifies you for citizenship, professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime is totally unknown. A Slanted Black Stripe's national animal is the zebra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is All are Welcome.

A Slanted Black Stripe is ranked 23,792^nd in the world and 351^st in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,821.37 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.