The United Socialist States of Polosand is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 223 million Polosandians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.5%.

The Polosandian economy, worth 13.2 trillion Polomarks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,291 Polomarks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,095 per year while the poor average 10,684, a ratio of 21.3 to 1.

100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, auditors are gutting every governmental department, and money grows on trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Polosand's national animal is the Polar bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Polosand is ranked 261,436^th in the world and 37^th in Aurelian Republic for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -5.27 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.