The Million Elephant Land of Bounpone Pathavong is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 40.529 billion Laotions are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The frighteningly efficient a Laotion economy, worth a remarkable 3,591 trillion Kips a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 88,614 Kips, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 481,976 per year while the poor average 8,376, a ratio of 57.5 to 1.

The government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, and the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Bounpone Pathavong's national animal is the Airavata, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bounpone Pathavong is ranked 137,455^th in the world and 2^nd in Cambodia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,841.57 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.