The Laser-Wielding Commune of Intergalactic Penguins is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Arthur C Squawk with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 31.515 billion Intergalactic Penguins hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Pillar of Winter. The average income tax rate is 82.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Intergalactic Penguinist economy, worth a remarkable 9,918 trillion Babelfish a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 314,711 Babelfish, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

With increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play, and the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet. Crime is totally unknown. Intergalactic Penguins's national animal is the Squidmoth, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Hothism.

Intergalactic Penguins is ranked 118,367^th in the world and 12^th in Pony Lands for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,092.7 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.