The Join Lily of Sweeze 1 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working population of 12.038 billion Join Lily 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 19.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Join Lily economy, worth 605 trillion Join Lilies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 50,295 Join Lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent, an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweeze 1's national animal is the Join Lily, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sweeze 1 is ranked 158,330^th in the world and 3,303^rd in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 496.86 on the Gilded Widget Scale.