The Community of St Stephen n Critters is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Head with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and lack of airports. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 36.261 billion St Stephen n Crittersians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Circumstance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient St Stephen n Crittersian economy, worth a remarkable 9,068 trillion Jerry Berries a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an amazing 250,100 Jerry Berries, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Dinner parties often end in politically charged fist fights, passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, Saint Circumstance has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right. Crime is totally unknown. St Stephen n Critters's national animal is the Dancing Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular humanism.

St Stephen n Critters is ranked 227,473^rd in the world and 74^th in Hippy Haven for Most Conservative, scoring 17.23 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.