The Starvation-Induced Delirium of Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole is a mammoth, pleasant nation, notable for its spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working population of 5.208 billion Exploring Space via A Really Long Poleans 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 relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The strong Exploring Space via A Really Long Polean economy, worth 253 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. Average income is 48,664 pounds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 313,648 per year while the poor average 3,050, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole's national animal is the squirrel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Exploring Space via A Really Long Pole is ranked 98,805^th in the world and 1,054^th in eta for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 43,603.61 Standard Monetary Units.