The Republic of Pickaxe is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its burgeoning hawk population. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.866 billion Pickaxeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.1%.

The very strong Pickaxean economy, worth 207 trillion rubledollars a year, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 53,775 rubledollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 173,795 per year while the poor average 12,574, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Crime is moderate. Pickaxe's national animal is the hawk.

Pickaxe is ranked 222,401^st in the world and 6,275^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 230.74 on the Gilded Widget Scale.