The Confederated Socialist Union of Celedaria is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Supreme Council of the Proletariat with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.494 billion Celedarians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Estrograd. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Celedarian economy, worth 210 trillion production value units 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 significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 140,791 production value units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Celedaria's national animal is the red fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Celedaria is ranked 3,178^th in the world and 103^rd in The Communist Bloc for Nicest Citizens, with 59.57 average smiles per day.