The Republic of A snake is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 9.562 billion snakes are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.1%.

The very strong snake economy, worth 547 trillion rubledollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 57,251 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 271,639 per year while the poor average 7,120, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, and Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards. Crime is moderate. A snake's national animal is the snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

A snake is ranked 256,657^th in the world and 1^st in The Snakes for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 102.8 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.