The United Islands of Polacianth is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Ferdinand Van Pitt with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.003 billion Polacesse are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bacuppt. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Polace economy, worth 405 trillion Polacianth Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 45,095 Polacianth Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations, imprisonment is the leading cause of disownment, and policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Polacianth's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Polacianth is ranked 317,208^th in the world and 108^th in Conch Kingdom for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -90.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.