The Hat Crushers of Southern New Kangaroos is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory vegetarianism, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.874 billion Southern New Kangaroosians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Southern New Kangaroosian economy, worth 523 trillion Southern New Kangaroo Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 37,724 Southern New Kangaroo Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, Leader has just been declared ruler of Southern New Kangaroos in an international press conference, and Southern New Kangaroos has designated Southern New Kangaroos City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern New Kangaroos's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Southern New Kangaroos is ranked 162,870^th in the world and 2^nd in Avian worshipers of chicken overlords for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 639.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.