The People's Republic of Weird Slugs is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 839 million Weird Slugsians 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 large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Weird Slugsian economy, worth 48.4 trillion slimes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 57,662 slimes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International terrorists often get their weapons supply in Weird Slugs, Weird Slugsian athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump, anti-government web sites are springing up, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Weird Slugs's national animal is the slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Weird Slugs is ranked 27,821^st in the world and 135^th in Forest for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 2,758.25 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.