The United Socialist States of Sotan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Bolbi Ploompkins with a fair hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.249 billion Sotanians 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, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bigtiti City. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Sotanian economy, worth 165 trillion Smooshies 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 51,041 Smooshies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sotan's free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, printing out government documents requires the approval of at least three admins, and nothing gets the party jumping like Bolbi Ploompkins specifying how high. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sotan's national animal is the Exotic Shorthair Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pagan Statism.

Sotan is ranked 16,777^th in the world and 164^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,150.46 pounds of wildlife per square mile.