The Social Democratic Republic of Pomeron is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Minister-president Lijsbeth Vroomen with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 14.07 billion Pomeronians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stabroek. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Pomeronian economy, worth 216 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 15,338 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Minister-president Lijsbeth Vroomen has just been declared ruler of Pomeron in an international press conference, bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pomeron's national animal is the jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pomeron is ranked 27,982^nd in the world and 2^nd in South America for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 88.57 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.