The Nomadic Peoples of Flying Pig 23 is a colossal, genial nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, devout population of 3.986 billion Flying Pig 23ians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Flying Pig 23ian economy, worth 478 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 120,164 Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 610,558 per year while the poor average 13,085, a ratio of 46.7 to 1.

Calling dibs is an unalienable right, the government is under the thumb of countless special interests, the fattest folk in Flying Pig 23 look to be the happiest ones, and metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Flying Pig 23's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Flying Pig 23 is ranked 44,388^th in the world and 1^st in International Network of Nations for Highest Average Incomes, with 120,164.82 Standard Monetary Units.