The United Socialist States of Kartoffelstan is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 161 million Kartoffelstanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Kartoffelstanian economy, worth 1.05 trillion Kartoffels 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 6,540 Kartoffels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is in perpetual campaign mode, prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, people are left scratching their heads at the government's decisions, and people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kartoffelstan's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kartoffelstan is ranked 302,570^th in the world and 3^rd in The Assortment of Free Degenerates for Most Developed, scoring 43.42 on the Human Development Index.