The Nomadic Peoples of Sparrot is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 8 million Sparrotians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Sparrotian economy, worth 59.3 billion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 7,408 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sparrot's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sparrot is ranked 330,487^th in the world and 4,164^th in the South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with zero Standard Monetary Units.