The Free Land of Pod U-21 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 3.481 billion Pod U-21ians 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, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Law & Order, Defense, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Pod U-21ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,069 trillion The Pods a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 307,220 The Pods, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,754,370 per year while the poor average 4,391, a ratio of 627 to 1.

Confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", visiting dignitaries often end up cuddling in the hot tub with Leader, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, and goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pod U-21's national animal is the The Pods, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pod U-21 is ranked 138,256^th in the world and 114^th in Poetry for Largest Populations, with 3.48 billion capita.