The Pain You Feel of -Speak- is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.904 billion -Speak-ians 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 45.7%.

The strong -Speak-ian economy, worth 113 trillion pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,636 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars, corporate lobbying has been outlawed, and war vets look after war animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Speak-'s national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

-Speak- is ranked 177,478^th in the world and 6,227^th in Suspicious for Most Primitive, scoring -68.94 on the Scary Big Number Scale.