The Incorporated States of Poignea is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 607 million Poignées are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Deiziadur. The average income tax rate is 58.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Poignéan economy, worth 30.2 trillion Paludoes a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,770 Paludoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, rumor has it that Leader has won three lotteries in a row, and feeling like a winner comes at a price. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poignea's national animal is the Great Blue Heron, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Poignea is ranked 74,472^nd in the world and 1,760^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.