The Kingdom of Pondingonia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Governor OSullivan with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, flagrant waste-dumping, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.941 billion Pondingonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, although Defense, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scuztown. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Pondingonian economy, worth 663 trillion Pondaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 225,489 Pondaris, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 816,891 per year while the poor average 44,374, a ratio of 18.4 to 1.

Being Governor OSullivan has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Pondingonia's national animal is the Snarfcat, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pondingonia is ranked 282,457^th in the world and 5,020^th in The East Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5.07 pounds of wildlife per square mile.