The Republic of Quotidistan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grey Technocrat with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-working population of 19.733 billion Quotidistanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Townsville. The average income tax rate is 49.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Quotidistanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,450 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Average income is 73,516 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The entire entry for Quotidistan in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', eating kids as food has been enshrined in law, bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes, and religious classes are compulsory for all school students. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quotidistan's national animal is the goldfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Quotidistan is ranked 48,374^th in the world and 7^th in Stanistan for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,036.12 on the Gilded Widget Scale.