The People's Republic of Commie Italy is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 674 million Commie Italians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roma. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Commie Italyian economy, worth 66.2 trillion Italian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 98,224 Italian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Roma Bears against long odds, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, and community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Commie Italy's national animal is the Bear.

Commie Italy is ranked 263,415^th in the world and 148^th in New United Kingdom for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.72 kickbacks per hour.