The Republic of Its A Pie Shop is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by King Ian Melnish with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 17.116 billion Its A Pie Shopians 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 medium-sized, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.6%.

The powerhouse Its A Pie Shopian economy, worth a remarkable 1,447 trillion Pieses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 84,551 Pieses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 273,261 per year while the poor average 19,770, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black, all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Its A Pie Shop City, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, and the Hanging Gardens account for half of Its A Pie Shop City's water use. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Its A Pie Shop's national animal is the ApplePie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Its A Pie Shop is ranked 263,400^th in the world and 96^th in matheo for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 38.75 on the Kitten Softness Rating.