The Always Answer 3 of Answer 3 is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Tray Trio Triangle III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, hatred of cheese, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.895 billion Answer 3ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tristate. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Answer 3ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,541 trillion Threes a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 195,234 Threes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 653,058 per year while the poor average 43,385, a ratio of 15.1 to 1.

The police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared', toddlers insist their pacifiers be autoclaved, acknowledgement of minority groups is usually a Trojan horse, and foreign nationals who stumble near Answer 3 are harbingers of war. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Answer 3's national animal is the Triangle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Trinitarian Messianic Monotheism.

Answer 3 is ranked 3,420^th in the world and 6^th in Testregionia for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 177.36 on the Bus Surprisal Index.