The United Socialist States of Souls 23 is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The quiet, industrious population of 16.853 billion Souls 23ians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 66.1%.

The strong Souls 23ian economy, worth 970 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 57,578 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Children are regularly married to each other to secure alliances between families, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, and school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Souls 23's national animal is the Dog, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Souls 23 is ranked 214,223^rd in the world and 5,424^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 10.82 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.