The Starvation-Induced Delirium of Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole is a mammoth, pleasant nation, remarkable for its spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 5.226 billion Exploring Space via A Really Long Poleans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The strong Exploring Space via A Really Long Polean economy, worth 254 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 48,664 pounds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 313,648 per year while the poor average 3,050, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole's national animal is the squirrel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole is ranked 237,686^th in the world and 2^nd in CzechRepublic for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 222.52 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.