The Planar Isotopies of The Passerine Islands is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by S Dehn-Reidemeister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.556 billion Birdies are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Avem. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Passerine economy, worth 295 trillion bird seeds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 115,619 bird seeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, the government's foreign policy statements are less threatening than a World Assembly cease-and-desist letter, late night talk show hosts are having a field day over S Dehn-Reidemeister's questionably sane new coalition partners, and court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point. Crime is totally unknown. The Passerine Islands's national animal is the potoo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Passerine Islands is ranked 258,988^th in the world and 8,066^th in the West Pacific for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.13 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.