The United Peoples Republics of Podria is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sisterly Leader Nadezhda Krupskaya with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 17.51 billion Podrian love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Doiregrad. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Podri economy, worth a remarkable 2,445 trillion irrelevants a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 139,638 irrelevants, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife, foreign invaders are putting Podri lab rats out of a job, and military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Podria's national animal is the serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism.

Podria is ranked 2,884^th in the world and 69^th in The Leftist Assembly for Nicest Citizens, with 60.5 average smiles per day.