The Republic of Pongi is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Bretford Rintt with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, conspicuous electricity pylons, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.81 billion Pongians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monsvallis. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Pongian economy, worth a remarkable 2,202 trillion Tremarras a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 177,602 Tremarras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Top universities admit students based on how often they correct interviewers, almost all products in Pongi are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws, leisure is a crime in ski towns, and advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references. Crime is totally unknown. Pongi's national animal is the Koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ancherism.

Pongi is ranked 208,584^th in the world and 111^th in Coalition of Crown Albatross for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring zero on the Clooney Contribution Index.