The Commune of Kolodkia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by the high council with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 5.053 billion Kolodkians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karl Marx City. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Kolodkian economy, worth 729 trillion Marks 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 144,456 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, arbitration is mightier than the sword, the endangered saltwater humpback Beaver is only seen in captivity programs, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kolodkia's national animal is the Beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sikhism.

Kolodkia is ranked 58,350^th in the world and 2,752^nd in Balder for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 5,013.02 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.