The People's Republic of Solestepas is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 374 million Solese 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rosamonte. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Solestepasian economy, worth 15.3 trillion Raios a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 40,969 Raios, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School football matches are usually five-a-side, birth rates have hit an all-time low, nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive, and politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solestepas's national animal is the Sand Pinscher, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solestepas is ranked 251,564^th in the world and 700^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.