The Album of Speak Now is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 4.071 billion Speak Nowians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 35.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Speak Nowian economy, worth 112 trillion Swifts a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,608 Swifts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Speak Now's national animal is the Meredith, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Speak Now is ranked 159,908^th in the world and 6,477^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.