The United Socialist States of Sparkledogtopia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 214 million Sparkledogtopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Sparkledogtopian economy, worth 1.37 trillion Coins 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 Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 6,403 Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", Sparkledogtopians incessantly needle their doctors for relief, five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year, and there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sparkledogtopia's national animal is the Sparkledog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sparkledogtopia is ranked 212,183^rd in the world and 1,027^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -1.71 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.