The Second Highest Mountain Peak of K2 is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, daily referendums, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 18.922 billion K2ians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.5%.

The frighteningly efficient K2ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,482 trillion Rocks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,222 Rocks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 487,708 per year while the poor average 24,808, a ratio of 19.7 to 1.

The family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', going on a diet invalidates your passport, and displaying impatience in any form lands you a spot on the KIA watchlist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. K2's national animal is the Yeti, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

K2 is ranked 8,975^th in the world and 11^th in Lands End for Largest Black Market, with 637 trillion Standard Monetary Units.