The People's Republic of El Pasaran is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 440 million El Pasaranians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Costa Del Barca. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong El Pasaranian economy, worth 35.6 trillion pesos 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 80,911 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed, jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, and the endangered saltwater humpback tiger is only seen in captivity programs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. El Pasaran's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

El Pasaran is ranked 44,435^th in the world and 297^th in Europeia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 59,863.86 Standard Monetary Units.