The United States of Steelsmere is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its complete lack of public education, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 1.367 billion Steelsmereans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Public Transport, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 6.5%.

The strong Steelsmerean economy, worth 52.1 trillion Steels a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 38,090 Steels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Steelsmere's national animal is the Steel Rabbit, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Steelsmere is ranked 304,606^th in the world and 8^th in Corvinia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -6.32 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.