The Japanese Alt-Rock Band of The Pillows is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Sawao Yamanaka with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 4.234 billion Pillows 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hokkaidō. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.1%.

The strong a Pillow economy, worth 354 trillion yen 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. 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 83,687 yen, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, and prison is a nightmare. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pillows's national animal is the robot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is J-Pop Stan.

The Pillows is ranked 100,286^th in the world and 1^st in J Pop for Most Developed, scoring 61.7 on the Human Development Index.