The People's Republic of The Southern Great Lakes is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 392 million Southern Great Lakers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cleveland. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Southern Great Laker economy, worth 25.9 trillion Dollars 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 significant contributions from Trout Farming and Tourism. Average income is 66,056 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, praying before a battle is a court-martial offence, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and interest in globalism never flags. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Southern Great Lakes's national animal is the Lake Sturgeon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Southern Great Lakes is ranked 95,042^nd in the world and 910^th in the West Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 977.32 milliStalins.