The Big Parm Soap States of Poboland is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by POBOTRON 5000 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ritual sacrifices, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 14.793 billion Pobolandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poboland city. The average income tax rate is 85.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pobolandian economy, worth a remarkable 3,820 trillion Soups a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 258,248 Soups, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fish with fish chips have become the new Pobolandian food staple, the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers, and Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poboland's national animal is the Long-Shafted Turkey-Weasel, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Poboism.

Poboland is ranked 331,672^nd in the world and 1,391^st in Europeia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -27.08 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.