The Most Serene Republic of Stinnobar is a small, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 29 million Stinnobarites love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Stinnobarian economy, worth 930 billion Pvilstrahns 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. Average income is 32,093 Pvilstrahns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stinnobar's national animal is the Brown Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Stinnobar is ranked 314,967^th in the world and 34^th in Secret Artist Society for Largest Populations, with 29.0 million capita.