The People's Republic of Spannic is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 2.116 billion Spannicians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dragonflania. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Spannician economy, worth 210 trillion kronor a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 99,651 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 512,821 per year while the poor average 10,576, a ratio of 48.5 to 1.

More citizens have access to Maxtopian Grass than clean drinking water, fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Spannic's national animal is the dragonfly, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Spannic is ranked 141,694^th in the world and 1,252^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 2,550.2 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.