The State of Ponts de Laval is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 30.619 billion Ponts de Lavalians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Education is also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The very strong Ponts de Lavalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,395 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 45,571 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 309,829 per year while the poor average 2,448, a ratio of 126 to 1.

The streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, the government is avowedly atheist, breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace, and Ponts de Laval has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ponts de Laval's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ponts de Laval is ranked 58,540^th in the world and 1^st in the Bahamas for Highest Food Quality, scoring 31.06 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.