The Principality of Socialist test 228 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.682 billion Socialist test 228ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist test 228ian economy, worth 898 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 191,962 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines, parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, and citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist test 228's national animal is the Python, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Socialist test 228 is ranked 16,164^th in the world and 1,032^nd in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.05 law-abiding acts per hour.