The Armed Republic of The 38th Revolutionary Worker Council is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 21.086 billion 38th Revolutionary Worker Councilians 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 Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish 38th Revolutionary Worker Councilian economy, worth 468 trillion Labormarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 22,218 Labormarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The 38th Revolutionary Worker Council's national animal is the Python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The 38th Revolutionary Worker Council is ranked 87,722^nd in the world and 1^st in Bavarian Soviet Republic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.5 law-abiding acts per hour.