The United Socialist States of TROLLWAFFEN is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ubiquitous missile silos, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 3.658 billion WAFFENS hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Spirituality are ignored. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient TROLLWAFFEIAN economy, worth 784 trillion keks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 214,568 keks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

News headlines suggest that Leader has a sideline in guinea pig pimping, foreign despots proudly bandstand on TROLLWAFFEIAN airwaves, colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, and kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. TROLLWAFFEN's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

TROLLWAFFEN is ranked 225,586^th in the world and 5,357^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.06 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.