The Oh My GOD! What were they thinking! He's a MODERATOR! of Sedgistan is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sedge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 24.405 billion Sedgistanis live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, outspoken individuals is solely concerned with Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockall. Income tax is unheard of.

The large but stagnant Sedgistani economy, worth 513 trillion pounds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Book Publishing. Average income is 21,023 pounds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 138,977 per year while the poor average 1,227, a ratio of 113 to 1.

Travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Sedgistan flights to avoid the pay lavatories, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, Sedge's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide, and royalist is the most offensive slur in the Sedgistani language. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sedgistan's national animal is the greyhound, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sedgistan is ranked 202,501^st in the world and 66^th in The Moon for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -9.81 on the Hickory Productivity Index.