The Rogue Nation of Smegheads is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and feral children. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 512 million Smegheadsians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Red Dwarf Mining City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.5%.

The very strong Smegheadsian economy, worth 28.5 trillion Listers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 55,741 Listers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 190,869 per year while the poor average 11,959, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

In life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans, glamping Smegheadsians won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi, and executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smegheads's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Smegheads is ranked 142,816^th in the world and 66^th in Der Leibwache for Highest Average Incomes, with 55,741.7 Standard Monetary Units.