The United States of Poguelands is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 213 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Poguelandsian economy, worth 24.2 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 113,433 Euro-Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,019,787 per year while the poor average 1,582, a ratio of 644 to 1.

Unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands, cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets, suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe, and throwing garbage out of your house's front window makes it legally someone else's problem. 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 55,715^th in the world and 900^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,276.51 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.