The United People's Communes of Sovtaskar is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Sovtaskar Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.373 billion Sovtaskarians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Undergrowth. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Sovtaskarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,002 trillion Sovtaskar coins 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 157,240 Sovtaskar coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dissing one's former country is a prerequisite to apply for Sovtaskarian citizenship, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons. Crime is totally unknown. Sovtaskar's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Sovtaskar is ranked 3,912^th in the world and 52^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 182 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.