The Fool's Nation of Konid is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Lir I with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, sprawling nuclear power plants, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.395 billion Konidis 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 medium-sized, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Velari. The average income tax rate is 78.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Konidi economy, worth a remarkable 1,664 trillion Piks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 198,303 Piks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, Konidi watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, the legal minefield around ownership of fiction has demolished the publishing industry, and the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Konid's national animal is the Eodo-Konidi Parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Hardline Kyarthism.

Konid is ranked 254,110^th in the world and 14,509^th in Balder for Safest, scoring 27.54 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.