The Eternal Misfortune of Pencil Sharpeners 2 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Supercomputer 00356 with an iron fist, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, vat-grown people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.612 billion Pencil Sharpeners 2ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandapolis. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Pencil Sharpeners 2ian economy, worth a remarkable 5,651 trillion Pencil shavings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 742,383 Pencil shavings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bleach is the nation's most common pesticide, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, it's best to decline if Supercomputer 00356 offers to buy a round of drinks, and roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews. Crime is totally unknown. Pencil Sharpeners 2's national animal is the Pencil, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pencil Sharpeners 2 is ranked 172,117^th in the world and 7,512^th in the South Pacific for Highest Workforce Participation Rate, with 28.34 Workforce Participation Rate.