The Loving Couple of -Pride Month- is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Skara with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.457 billion -Pride Month-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the knee. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.5%.

The frighteningly efficient -Pride Month-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,108 trillion snails a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 117,239 snails, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Workers' complaints never reach central planning, populations of two-headed owls have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, young people avoid opening doors for the elderly with impunity, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Pride Month-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

-Pride Month- is ranked 100,499^th in the world and 60^th in Cao Wei for Smartest Citizens, with 36.51 quips per hour.