The Constitutional Monarchy of Pholwatia is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 45 million Pholwatians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 56.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pholwatian economy, worth 1.49 trillion Lians a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,213 Lians, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing Leader to cartoon bears, vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pholwatia's national animal is the Common Tailorbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pholwatia is ranked 131,467^th in the world and 438^th in Dead Sea for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 794.57 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.