The Socialist Federation of The Steam-Gardens is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Alaska Tanaka with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.921 billion Steam Gardeners hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sky Garden. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Steam Gardener economy, worth 445 trillion Wooded Bolts 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 and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 152,405 Wooded Bolts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, and farting etiquette is taught in schools. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Steam-Gardens's national animal is the uproot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

The Steam-Gardens is ranked 6,808^th in the world and 60^th in Europeia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 57.82 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.