The Grand Duchy of Popinjay Lands is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 152 million Popinjay Landsians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Education, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The thriving Popinjay Landsian economy, worth 9.40 trillion Fops a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 61,821 Fops, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 403,693 per year while the poor average 3,736, a ratio of 108 to 1.

Female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs, there's no such thing as bad publicity, economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation, and blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Popinjay Lands's national animal is the Peacock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Popinjay Lands is ranked 122,627^th in the world and 2,921^st in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 926.75 on the Gilded Widget Scale.