The Commonwealth of Poina is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Eyden with an even hand, and notable for its lack of airports, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 9.652 billion Poinans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poino. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Poinan economy, worth a remarkable 2,339 trillion Nugs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Information Technology and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 242,359 Nugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A passport is literally priceless, criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and where there's smoke there's the Poinan Forestry Department. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poina's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Juropijan Cults.

Poina is ranked 83,841^st in the world and 767^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 95.58 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.