The Republic of Everything Louder Than Everything Else is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 1.647 billion Everything Louder Than Everything Elseans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.2%.

The all-consuming Everything Louder Than Everything Elsean economy, worth 164 trillion lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,667 lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Exterminators swarm Everything Louder Than Everything Elsean homes, dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction, and young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Everything Louder Than Everything Else's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Everything Louder Than Everything Else is ranked 138,770^th in the world and 1^st in Meat Loaf for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 1,077.69 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.