The Grassley-Rogers State of Photoplier is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Joseph Albert Holtzmann Jr with an even hand, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, avowedly heterosexual populace, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 1.942 billion Photoplierians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jaholta. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Photoplierian economy, worth 115 trillion Joebucks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,453 Joebucks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Joseph Albert Holtzmann Jr is a silly poophead, it's always rabbit season, the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame, and barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Jaholta Natural History Museum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Photoplier's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Photoplier is ranked 92,283^rd in the world and 3,206^th in the South Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 34.05 quips per hour.