The Oppressed Peoples of The Smiling Critters is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 231 million Critters are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Anarchist economy, worth 4.70 trillion greybers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 20,348 greybers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, the nation sends criminals home to think about what they did, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, and the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Smiling Critters's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Smiling Critters is ranked 281,416^th in the world and 6,815^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 0.49 flags saluted per person per day.