The Eternal Misfortune of Pencil Sharpeners 2 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Supercomputer 00356 with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.783 billion Pencil Sharpeners 2ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandapolis. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pencil Sharpeners 2ian economy, worth a remarkable 5,708 trillion Pencil shavings a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 733,492 Pencil shavings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests, there is something rotten in the state of Pencil Sharpeners 2, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, and frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback. Crime is totally unknown. Pencil Sharpeners 2's national animal is the Pencil, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pencil Sharpeners 2 is ranked 83,068^th in the world and 3,983^rd in the South Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 29.87 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.