The Grassley-Rogers State of Photoplier is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Joseph Albert Holtzmann Jr with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.959 billion Photoplierians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jaholta. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Photoplierian economy, worth 116 trillion Joebucks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,634 Joebucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame, barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Jaholta Natural History Museum, parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence, and citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Photoplier's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Photoplier is ranked 67,915^th in the world and 3,208^th in the South Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 51.88 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.