The Free Land of Pod U-74 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, flagrant waste-dumping, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful population of 3.46 billion Pod U-74ians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Pod U-74ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,064 trillion The Pods a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 307,737 The Pods, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,758,518 per year while the poor average 4,405, a ratio of 626 to 1.

Reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies, people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, and new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words. Crime is totally unknown. Pod U-74's national animal is the The Pods, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pod U-74 is ranked 138,715^th in the world and 140^th in Poetry for Largest Populations, with 3.46 billion capita.