The Confederacy of Stang is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 25.735 billion Lathans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stang City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Stangian economy, worth a remarkable 3,829 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 148,812 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protests are legal but strictly supervised, cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", and kindergartners are taught to loathe poor trigger discipline and citrus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stang's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stang is ranked 5,453^rd in the world and 1^st in The Zephyr for Safest, scoring 127.49 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.