The Oppressed Peoples of Lower Slobbovia is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Comrade Nogoodnik with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.38 billion Lower Slobbovians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slivovitz. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Lower Slobbovian economy, worth a remarkable 1,982 trillion Plastic Rasbuckniks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 268,659 Plastic Rasbuckniks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Only the brainiest citizens become academics, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Russian Bearball fields, picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them, and park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lower Slobbovia's national animal is the Russian Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Equity Amongst the Masses.

Lower Slobbovia is ranked 4,560^th in the world and 1^st in The Embassy for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,463.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.