The Republic of Inner Cord Ponia is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 487 million Inner Cord Ponians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Dingwall. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Inner Cord Ponian economy, worth 15.1 trillion florins a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,970 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Widow Twankey complains about being "cancelled", the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation, the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields, and Inner Cord Ponia has designated New Dingwall as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Inner Cord Ponia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Inner Cord Ponia is ranked 68,285^th in the world and 1,490^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.42 law-abiding acts per hour.