The Obscurely Profound Confusion of Misplaced States is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Slartibartfast with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 37.712 billion Misplaced Ones are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Something or Other. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The large but stagnant kinda Lost economy, worth 551 trillion ningis a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 14,631 ningis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, religious education is a new government priority, and foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade Kinda Lost Moonshine". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Misplaced States's national animal is the Jabberwocky, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Antidisestablishment Mentarianism.

Misplaced States is ranked 301,627^th in the world and 11^th in Free Thought for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -14.45 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.