The Endless Epics of Rhyme is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by High Muse Terpsichore the Lithe with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory vegetarianism, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 12.897 billion Rhymers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calliope. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Rhyming economy, worth a remarkable 1,546 trillion Verses a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 119,949 Verses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, state media features lively debates such as whether pineapple on pizza is an acceptable topping, schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention, and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rhyme's national animal is the Scarlet Macaw, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Aesthetic Museology.

Rhyme is ranked 6,784^th in the world and 4^th in Haiku for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.25 law-abiding acts per hour.