The United States of Poguelands is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 250 million Poguelandsians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Poguelandsian economy, worth 28.7 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 114,649 Euro-Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,030,755 per year while the poor average 1,599, a ratio of 644 to 1.

The police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared', savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, the inside lane of every highway is for parked vehicles only, and prank shows are so hot right now. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Poguelands's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Poguelands is ranked 78,716^th in the world and 1,530^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,265.03 on the Gilded Widget Scale.