The I Had Enough and I Want Out of The Needle Lies is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 1.895 billion Needle Liesians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.5%.

The powerhouse Needle Liesian economy, worth 155 trillion dollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 82,177 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, reassembling shredded papers is the highlight of a spy's day, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Needle Lies's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Needle Lies is ranked 288,931^st in the world and 8,697^th in Suspicious for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -12.65 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.