The United Socialist States of Quackenbushia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Tadeusz Obon with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.157 billion Quackenbushians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Warsaw. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Quackenbushian economy, worth a remarkable 2,882 trillion Quackars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 124,477 Quackars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 696,283 per year while the poor average 11,064, a ratio of 62.9 to 1.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, the nation is now proudly cholera-free, getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter, and baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Quackenbushia's national animal is the Quackenbush, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Quackenbushia is ranked 51,671^st in the world and 2,983^rd in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,799.16 on the Gilded Widget Scale.