The Federal Republic of Potoronia is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 7.286 billion Potoronians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santo Antonio. The average income tax rate is 59.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Potoronian economy, worth 593 trillion US Dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 81,449 US Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Leader can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini, no one knows how to tie a reef knot, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Potoronia's national animal is the Potoronian Moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Potoronianristian.

Potoronia is ranked 300,604^th in the world and 40^th in Philosophers for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.37 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.