The Panda of Pencil Sharpeners 2 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Panda Protector with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, smutty television, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.844 billion Pencil Sharpeners Twice are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandapolis. The average income tax rate is 99.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Pencil Sharpeners Twice economy, worth an astonishing 10,252 trillion Pencil shavings a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 865,621 Pencil shavings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,433,402 per year while the poor average 147,380, a ratio of 23.3 to 1.

Bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and the daily weather forecast often predicts light showers of debris. Crime is totally unknown. Pencil Sharpeners 2's national animal is the Pencil, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Amerionism.

Pencil Sharpeners 2 is ranked 4,924^th in the world and 166^th in the South Pacific for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 79.41 Bank.