The Community of Smultronstalle is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, devout population of 364 million Smultronstalleans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 48.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Smultronstallean economy, worth 8.43 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 23,166 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. Smultronstalle's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Smultronstalle is ranked 174,791^st in the world and 1,161^st in Europe for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 373.69 on the Gilded Widget Scale.