The People's Republic of El Pasaran is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 428 million El Pasaranians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Costa Del Barca. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong El Pasaranian economy, worth 34.1 trillion pesos 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 79,776 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, and helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Pasaran's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Pasaran is ranked 277,622^nd in the world and 1,290^th in Europeia for Fattest Citizens, with 6.33 Obesity Rate.