The Layaqua of Pioneer Pool is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Grand Layaq Council with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 10.974 billion Layaqs 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 Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lane Pools. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Layaq economy, worth a remarkable 5,000 trillion Layaq Flimnyas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 455,701 Layaq Flimnyas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jennifer Government is a bestseller, hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders, citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks, and the government has the power to seize property at will. Crime is totally unknown. Pioneer Pool's national animal is the Swimming Instructor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Life Guardiasm.

Pioneer Pool is ranked 1,675^th in the world and 30^th in Europe for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 22,528.26 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.