The Oppressed Peoples of Lower Slobbovia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Comrade Nogoodnik with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, infamous sell-swords, and keen interest in outer space. 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 1,980 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 268,478 Plastic Rasbuckniks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, only the brainiest citizens become academics, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Russian Bearball fields, and picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them. 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 148,407^th in the world and 30^th in The Embassy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 466.57 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.