The Testament to Laziness of Qpq is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by q with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, smutty television, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.965 billion qpq are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of QqqqqppppP. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.4%.

The all-consuming qpq economy, worth 971 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 97,471 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 880,908 per year while the poor average 1,297, a ratio of 679 to 1.

Strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government, the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams, an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, and foreign heads of state have taken out restraining orders against qpq ambassadors. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Qpq's national animal is the qp, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is p.

Qpq is ranked 161,250^th in the world and 7^th in Pontbridge Islands for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,787.08 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.