The People's Republic of Socialist Refuge is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Karl Vikder with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.31 billion Socialist Refugeans 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The city of Emancipation. The average income tax rate is 93.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist Refugean economy, worth 304 trillion Socialist Peths 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 131,620 Socialist Peths, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, and hospitals in Socialist Refuge are too busy serving the needs of The Communist Bloc to see Socialist Refugeans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Refuge's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Socialist Refuge is ranked 266,231^st in the world and 505^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.