The Haughty Idiot of Guess and Check is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 12.037 billion Guess and Checkians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.2%.

The very strong Guess and Checkian economy, worth 853 trillion Monies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,872 Monies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,310 per year while the poor average 6,934, a ratio of 54.7 to 1.

Formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", and nobody knows why the caged Vulture sings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Guess and Check's national animal is the Vulture, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Guess and Check is ranked 225,085^th in the world and 258^th in The Union of Democratic States for Nicest Citizens, with 6.19 average smiles per day.