The Stuck In The Middle With You of Stuck Here Now is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 7.579 billion Stuck Here Nowians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 45.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Stuck Here Nowian economy, worth 137 trillion Pennies 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. 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 18,044 Pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown. Stuck Here Now's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Stuck Here Now is ranked 229,736^th in the world and 1^st in Gray Light for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 153.5 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.