The Solidarity Movement of Attempted Socialism is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Chairperson Marcie Elizabeth Illum with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.168 billion Socialists are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, although Healthcare, Environment, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karlmarxhof. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist economy, worth a remarkable 4,921 trillion work-hour equivalents 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 and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 256,765 work-hour equivalents, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Chairperson Marcie Elizabeth Illum on Attempted Socialism's coulrophobia epidemic, the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought, and giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls. Crime is totally unknown. Attempted Socialism's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Attempted Socialism is ranked 280^th in the world and 14^th in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 7,328.44 on the Clooney Contribution Index.