The Former Nation of Significant Size is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Biggie Small with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 32.632 billion Significant Sizers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rather Important City. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Significant Sizer economy, worth a remarkable 3,735 trillion Rather Large Cents a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,484 Rather Large Cents, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh, sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, and the nation gives peace a chance - usually one in a million. Crime is totally unknown. Significant Size's national animal is the miniature Blue Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is a really fantastic religion.

Significant Size is ranked 9,380^th in the world and 3^rd in The Hill for Most Cultured, scoring 117 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.