The Republic of Plain Old Cheerios is a large, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working population of 108 million Plain Old Cheeriosians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.6%.

The very strong Plain Old Cheeriosian economy, worth 7.82 trillion CheeriOats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is 72,364 CheeriOats, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, extreme political groups are outlawed, corporate lobbying has been outlawed, and anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Plain Old Cheerios's national animal is the Loch Ness Monster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Plain Old Cheerios is ranked 231,021^st in the world and 186^th in Benigtopia for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.