The Several Showerless Semesters of Smeg is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Robin De Bris with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and daily referendums. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 4.374 billion Smegians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Four Skins City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The all-consuming Smegian economy, worth 469 trillion Rinds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 107,453 Rinds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All you have to do is pray to get into Smeg, laughter while watching foreign diplomats disrobe tends to make diplomatic talks counterproductive, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Smegian language, and the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces. Crime is totally unknown. Smeg's national animal is the Segmented Rat-kisser, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Smeg is ranked 30,012^th in the world and 45^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,675.49 on the Gilded Widget Scale.