The People's Republic of Peoples Republic Of StaniStans is a huge, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 384 million Peoples Republic Of StaniStansians 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 Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Peoples Republic Of StaniStansian economy, worth 12.1 trillion Stani Dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,453 Stani Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, dozens of viewers tune in weekly to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, and foreign lack of enthusiasm for Peoples Republic Of StaniStansian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Peoples Republic Of StaniStans's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Peoples Republic Of StaniStans is ranked 84,792^nd in the world and 876^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,468.42 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.