The Oppressed Peoples of Lower Slobbovia is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Comrade Nogoodnik with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.375 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 1,974 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 fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 267,762 Plastic Rasbuckniks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels, most Lower Slobbovians would sell their own grandmother, and the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region. 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 150,676^th in the world and 30^th in The Embassy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 423.95 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.