The United Socialist States of Tompotska is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 56 million Tompotskans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Tompotskan economy, worth 1.31 trillion Tompotskan Rubles 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 23,467 Tompotskan Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant, hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, and finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tompotska's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tompotska is ranked 305,684^th in the world and 50^th in Eastern Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -51.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.