The Ongoing State of Absentia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by youse with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 45.631 billion Absentians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Middle of Nowhere. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Absentian economy, worth an astonishing 25,113 trillion ergs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 550,370 ergs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime is totally unknown. Absentia's national animal is the cambot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Absentia is ranked 2,365^th in the world and 1^st in CDW Federation for Lowest Crime Rates, with 138.55 law-abiding acts per hour.