The Republic of Pineapple Belongs on Pizza 43 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 7.424 billion Pineapple Belongs on Pizza 43ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 44.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pineapple Belongs on Pizza 43ian economy, worth 83.1 trillion francs 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. 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 11,194 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, Leader's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, and school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pineapple Belongs on Pizza 43's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Pineapple Belongs on Pizza 43 is ranked 163,370^th in the world and 2,456^th in The East Pacific for Largest Governments, scoring 12.37 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.