The United States of Poguelands is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 299 million Poguelandsians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Night city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Poguelandsian economy, worth 34.2 trillion Euro-Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 114,465 Euro-Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 325,400 per year while the poor average 32,144, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

Clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions, 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office, only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, and baiting is a national sport. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Poguelands's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Poguelands is ranked 33,875^th in the world and 779^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 201.81 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.