The Colony of Not-a-spy 4 is a huge, pleasant nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 220 million Not-a-spy 4ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The Not-a-spy 4ian economy, worth 10.8 trillion Oranges a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 49,106 Oranges, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 138,837 per year while the poor average 13,895, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

The "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore, and classes at Not-a-spy 4 City University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Not-a-spy 4's national animal is the Eastern box turtle , which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Not-a-spy 4 is ranked 13,221^st in the world and 16^th in The Funian Puppet Region for Most Primitive, scoring 88.92 on the Scary Big Number Scale.