The United Socialist States of Plutonious is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Al Capone with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.572 billion Plutoniuns are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plivo. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Plutoniousian economy, worth 153 trillion Ploots 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 major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 97,933 Ploots, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems, knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags, and Al Capone reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Plutonious's national animal is the Leptictidium, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Plutonious is ranked 200,162^nd in the world and 100^th in Gay for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.