The NationStates page of Earldom of South Ballygowan is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Earl Martin the Not Criminally Insane with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 13.748 billion Ballygowaners are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ballygowan. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient unfortunate economy, worth a remarkable 6,665 trillion whatever’s lying arounds 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 484,834 whatever’s lying arounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prenuptial contracts have replaced diamond rings in marriage proposals, criminals are thrown to the Greater Chequered Street Rats to repay their debt to society, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive, and military pistols are more secure than the national treasury. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Earldom of South Ballygowan's national animal is the Greater Chequered Street Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Earldom of South Ballygowan is ranked 309,963^rd in the world and 1^st in Somewhere Else Entirely for Most Cultured, scoring -131 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.