The Free Republic of Poquaoi is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Me with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.312 billion Poqs are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Guerville. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Poquaoian economy, worth a remarkable 3,268 trillion Koches a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 265,475 Koches, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, Me's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects. Crime is totally unknown. Poquaoi's national animal is the Armadillo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is No.

Poquaoi is ranked 2,158^th in the world and 4^th in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 789.09 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.