The Confederacy of Southern Tormerog is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 6.982 billion Southern Tormerogians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Redwood City. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southern Tormerogian economy, worth a remarkable 1,039 trillion lire 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 148,855 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", and government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Tormerog's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Southern Tormerog is ranked 290,094^th in the world and 11,301^st in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -27.31 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.