The Big Parm Soap States of Poboland is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by POBOTRON 5000 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 14.689 billion Pobolandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poboland city. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pobolandian economy, worth a remarkable 3,832 trillion Soups a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 260,889 Soups, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, Pobolandians are shown the peaceful ways of free trade by force, and news editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing POBOTRON 5000 tend to disappear. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poboland's national animal is the Long-Shafted Turkey-Weasel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Poboism.

Poboland is ranked 5,448^th in the world and 21^st in Europeia for Highest Average Incomes, with 260,889.95 Standard Monetary Units.