The Grand Duchy of Pown Illous is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 735 million Pown Illousians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Healthcare, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Pown Illousian economy, worth 73.3 trillion deniers a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 99,727 deniers, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 573,178 per year while the poor average 8,335, a ratio of 68.8 to 1.

Talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and many are questioning Leader wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Pown Illous's national animal is the fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pown Illous is ranked 244,138^th in the world and 341^st in Eurth for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.