The United States of Poguelands is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, ubiquitous missile silos, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 281 million Poguelandsians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Healthcare, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Night city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Poguelandsian economy, worth 31.7 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 112,668 Euro-Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 318,934 per year while the poor average 31,826, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, the word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Poguelandsian Colonial Thesaurus, model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf", and serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Poguelands's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Poguelands is ranked 251,489^th in the world and 4,682^nd in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 45.24 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.