The Council Republic of Syndicasia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by General Commissar with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.646 billion Syndicasians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trogenal. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Syndicasian economy, worth 723 trillion vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 198,530 vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime is totally unknown. Syndicasia's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Syndicasia is ranked 3,329^th in the world and 78^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 17,654.07 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.