The United Socialist States of Stormst is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.478 billion Stormstians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Stormstian economy, worth 134 trillion dollars 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 91,102 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, the children of Stormst are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and kindhearted Stormstians generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stormst's national animal is the alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stormst is ranked 322,920^th in the world and 776^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -11.56 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.