The Several Showerless Semesters of Smeg is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Robin De Bris with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, complete lack of prisons, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.542 billion Smegians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Four Skins City. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Smegian economy, worth 920 trillion Rinds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, 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. Average income is an impressive 107,704 Rinds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories churn out smog to make statues commemorating environmentalism, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, and nude art is becoming wildly popular. Crime is totally unknown. Smeg's national animal is the Segmented Rat-kisser, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Smeg is ranked 24,176^th in the world and 50^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Developed, scoring 85.77 on the Human Development Index.