The United Socialist States of Socialist Republic of Sordland is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 413 million Sords are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holsord. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sordish economy, worth 26.2 trillion Sordish Rens 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 63,473 Sordish Rens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation was recently voted "most likely to betray its allies", glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, and the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Republic of Sordland's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Socialist Republic of Sordland is ranked 36,142^nd in the world and 1,258^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 77 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.