The Emoticons of Smiley Bob is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Danielle with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, strictly enforced bedtime, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 39.471 billion Smilers 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avengers Tower. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Smiley economy, worth an astonishing 12,474 trillion pikas 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 amazing 316,039 pikas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet, and kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smiley Bob's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is a tie.

Smiley Bob is ranked 9^th in the world and 1^st in Hollow Point for Most Developed, scoring 102.79 on the Human Development Index.