The Pinky Holly Lucky Christmas of Popasna is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 2.818 billion Popasnans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Popasnan economy, worth 375 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 133,345 Candy Cane Gold Bars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 812,463 per year while the poor average 9,685, a ratio of 83.9 to 1.

In a desperate bid for cheap airfare Popasnans can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying, life is somewhat repetitive, terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports, and toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam". Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Popasna's national animal is the Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Athyism.

Popasna is ranked 279,259^th in the world and 838^th in The Wellspring for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.5 bananas ingested per day.