The Armed Republic of 42 Tons of Pasta is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Cthulhu with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical population of 878 million Italians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parmasean city. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Italian economy, worth 76.7 trillion Doll hairs a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,400 Doll hairs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts, the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over 42 Tons of Pasta, and more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 42 Tons of Pasta's national animal is the Void horror, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

42 Tons of Pasta is ranked 125,894^th in the world and 7,534^th in Osiris for Most Conservative, scoring 64 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.