The Join Lily of Sweeze 43 is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed population of 11.357 billion Join Lily are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare, Law & Order, and Welfare also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 32.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Join Lily economy, worth 445 trillion Join Lilies a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,257 Join Lilies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Sweeze 43 flights to avoid the pay lavatories, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Sweeze 43 City to enjoy their national art, and invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweeze 43's national animal is the Join Lily, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Sweeze 43 is ranked 165,319^th in the world and 3,545^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 14.27 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.