The Republic of Pill is a mammoth, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.716 billion Pillians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 20.3%.

The strong Pillian economy, worth 363 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 54,083 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, and internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech. Crime is moderate. Pill's national animal is the squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pill is ranked 179,171^st in the world and 179^th in Lightyears Away for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,009.74 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.