The Potato of Porfloxians is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.337 billion Porfloxiansians 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 minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The all-consuming Porfloxiansian economy, worth 756 trillion Potatoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 103,112 Potatoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 365,631 per year while the poor average 20,975, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state, Jennifer Government is a bestseller, and KOALA is one of the most popular forenames in Porfloxians. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Porfloxians's national animal is the KOALA, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Porfloxians is ranked 290,455^th in the world and 138^th in Spiritus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 28.94 law-abiding acts per hour.