The Proletarian Federation of Southwest America is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Dillion Martin-Heizel with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 4.815 billion Southwest Americans 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Washington. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Southwest American economy, worth 599 trillion worker's coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an impressive 124,527 worker's coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub, the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, and a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southwest America's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Southwest America is ranked 2,186^th in the world and 102^nd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,970.11 on the Clooney Contribution Index.