The Republic of Solstein is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 14 million Solsteinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 41.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Solsteinian economy, worth 554 billion Woofs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,616 Woofs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, every citizen sounds like a television news anchor, and children who refuse to share their crayons are arrested. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Solstein's national animal is the Corgi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Solstein is ranked 56,622^nd in the world and 160^th in Horizon for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.