The Community of Contonomo is a small, cultured nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 32 million Contonomoans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Contonomoan economy, worth 770 billion Communist Dollars 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 Information Technology and Retail. Average income is 24,080 Communist Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most barbers are also surgeons, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, and bins outnumber trees in city parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Contonomo's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Contonomo is ranked 306,019^th in the world and 2,652^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -14.43 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.