The People's Republic of Weird Slugs is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 927 million Weird Slugsians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Weird Slugsian economy, worth 54.1 trillion slimes 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 led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 58,389 slimes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed, and referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Weird Slugs's national animal is the slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Weird Slugs is ranked 4,263^rd in the world and 22^nd in Forest for Highest Drug Use, scoring 372.33 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.