The Most Serene Republic of Socionation is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 324 million Socionationians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Big Pipirka. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Socionationian economy, worth 25.4 trillion pipirkas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is 78,486 pipirkas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies, and most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socionation's national animal is the uncle Ben, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Socionation is ranked 174,351^st in the world and 1,117^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 106.75 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.