The Socialist Republic of Spongo is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Porpo Bomp with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, prohibition of alcohol, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.529 billion Spongonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Union Central. The average income tax rate is 39.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Spongoni economy, worth 344 trillion bollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 136,166 bollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Porpo Bomp has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', and hairless screaming mongooses are considered a delicacy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spongo's national animal is the hairless screaming mongoose, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Spongo is ranked 44,621^st in the world and 2,590^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,310.71 on the Gilded Widget Scale.