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“It tastes sweet”

The Huge Pants of Steatopygian is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its national health service. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 5.518 billion hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, the Environment, and Social Equality. The average income tax rate is 100%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds, same-sex marriages are increasingly common, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and people are moving into treehouses in record numbers. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is crippling, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. Steatopygian's national animal is the quokka, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the skepsis.

Steatopygian is ranked 39th in the region and 54,855th in the world for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector.