The Republic of Playlist is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, enslaved workforce, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 3.586 billion Playlistians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Welfare, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 88.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Playlistian economy, worth a remarkable 1,073 trillion Songs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 299,388 Songs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,682,475 per year while the poor average 4,302, a ratio of 623 to 1.

Confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges, prime picnicking sites are being paved over in the name of progress, stockbrokers dream of getting rich by writing textbooks, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime is totally unknown. Playlist's national animal is the Artist, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Playlist is ranked 278,034^th in the world and 132^nd in Poetry for Safest, scoring 6.02 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.