The Federal Republic of Slonful is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 9.589 billion Slonfulians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Slonfulian economy, worth 661 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,959 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character, the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble, families burn Leader's latest official photograph to keep warm, and customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Slonful's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Slonful is ranked 10,044^th in the world and 315^th in The East Pacific for Healthiest Citizens, with 14.76 bananas ingested per day.