The Republic of P178 is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 426 million P178ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 50.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong P178ian economy, worth 29.3 trillion złoties a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. Average income is 68,830 złoties, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, cities in P178 declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, and wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. P178's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

P178 is ranked 252,332^nd in the world and 191^st in Squeaky Squeakers for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.