The Republic of Pick Island is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, daily referendums, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.879 billion Pick Islandians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Pick Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,457 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,709 Euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 456,915 per year while the poor average 23,130, a ratio of 19.8 to 1.

The nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, foreigners write "made in Pick Island" on shoddy merchandise in hope of receiving a buy-out, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, and construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pick Island's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pick Island is ranked 305,563^rd in the world and 556^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Nicest Citizens, with 0.85 average smiles per day.