The Gilded Cage of Good Prettybirdlola is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Lola with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 33.161 billion Good Prettybirdlolaites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lolita. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Good Prettybirdlolan economy, worth a remarkable 2,221 trillion hiyarockets 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, extremely specialized black market in Book Publishing. 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 66,998 hiyarockets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, police escort anti-abortion activists to free speech cages if they try to express their views, and explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Good Prettybirdlola's national animal is the cockatiel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Doing What Is Good For Lola.

Good Prettybirdlola is ranked 14,566^th in the world and 1^st in Freshness for Highest Food Quality, scoring 136.87 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.