The Mighty Foundation of Concrete Slab is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Alistair Stonesworth with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 13.424 billion Concrete Slabians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stone City. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Concrete Slabian economy, worth a remarkable 3,727 trillion Stones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 277,647 Stones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and a flying elephant and Alistair Stonesworth share the same nickname. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Concrete Slab's national animal is the Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Concrete Slab is ranked 3,860^th in the world and 87^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 123.14 law-abiding acts per hour.