The Dictatorship of Storkostmark is a mid-sized, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 56 million Storkosts are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Storkostmarkian economy, worth 983 billion Storkost mynnts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 17,569 Storkost mynnts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Storkostmark's national animal is the lynx.

Storkostmark is ranked 325,160^th in the world and 247^th in The League for Largest Black Market, with 1.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.