The Armed Republic of Lollipop is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Lollycop with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 20.128 billion Lollipopians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lollipop City. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Lollipopian economy, worth a remarkable 2,159 trillion Lollipops a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 107,308 Lollipops, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them, the little guy plays a big role in Lollipopian politics, and the media only bothers polling the three most exclusive country clubs in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lollipop's national animal is the Puppy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lollipop is ranked 283,590^th in the world and 173^rd in Valley of Peace for Safest, scoring 5.89 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.