The Mountain Forest of Stomping Ground is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Mark Rosewater with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, enslaved workforce, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 10.467 billion Stomping Groundians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shockland. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stomping Groundian economy, worth a remarkable 1,496 trillion lands a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 142,993 lands, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, all facts are created equal, and voting is voluntary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stomping Ground's national animal is the shock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is shocking.

Stomping Ground is ranked 301,277^th in the world and 190^th in House Boucher for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -10.96 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.