The Join Lily of Switz got Lazy 499 is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 8.159 billion Join Lily are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 27.2%.

The strong Join Lily economy, worth 367 trillion Join Lilies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 44,992 Join Lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

A cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, and sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Switz got Lazy 499's national animal is the Join Lily, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Switz got Lazy 499 is ranked 172,488^th in the world and 3^rd in The Federation of Harditian States for Highest Food Quality, scoring 13.78 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.