The United Socialist States of Tompotska is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 121 million Tompotskans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Tompotskan economy, worth 2.86 trillion Tompotskan Rubles 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 23,661 Tompotskan Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

This year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, and getting a haircut is a punishable offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tompotska's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tompotska is ranked 299,506^th in the world and 4,428^th in The North Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -10.7 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.