The Join Lily of Sweeze 22 is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The democratic population of 13.224 billion Join Lily have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 23.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Join Lily economy, worth 544 trillion Join Lilies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,156 Join Lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, financial investors are noting a boom in artillery, the election for Leader's office's janitor is heating up, and over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweeze 22's national animal is the Join Lily, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sweeze 22 is ranked 134,727^th in the world and 1,192^nd in Suspicious for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.