The Confederacy of Squornshelan Remnant States is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by President Erland Kraft with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.886 billion Confederates love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chalesm. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Confederate economy, worth a remarkable 1,006 trillion springs a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,279 springs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Squornshelan Remnant States's national animal is the mattress, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Squornshelan Remnant States is ranked 295,894^th in the world and 25^th in Arrosia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.43 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.