The Republic of Snuffmuffania is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by President Douglas Snuffmuffin with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.363 billion Snuffmuffanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Snuffmuffington. The average income tax rate is 25.8%.

The Snuffmuffanian economy, worth 196 trillion Snuffmuffanian Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Soda Sales. Average income is 45,081 Snuffmuffanian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

In court almost every witness is a hostile witness, Snuffmuffanian athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, and the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Snuffmuffania's national animal is the Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Fellowship of the Pig.

Snuffmuffania is ranked 139,691^st in the world and 5,790^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 63.65 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.