The Rogue Nation of PoorChoices is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Scrampton with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.774 billion PoorChoicesians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of betty. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse PoorChoicesian economy, worth 437 trillion Big boy bucks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,984 Big boy bucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, the nation is going green, and teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PoorChoices's national animal is the Jeff from down the road, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is HappyTimes.

PoorChoices is ranked 35,933^rd in the world and 18^th in Nudist Dreamland for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,772.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.