The Republic of Poquaoi is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Me with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.54 billion Poqs are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Guerville. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Poquaoian economy, worth a remarkable 1,830 trillion Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 214,334 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, Me always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms, and RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept. Crime is totally unknown. Poquaoi's national animal is the Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is No.

Poquaoi is ranked 277,417^th in the world and 1,018^th in Europeia for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -19.92 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.