The Obscurely Profound Confusion of Misplaced States is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Slartibartfast with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 36.787 billion Misplaced Ones are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Something or Other. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The large but stagnant kinda Lost economy, worth 536 trillion ningis a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 14,593 ningis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Cheating spouses are required to undergo job training, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Misplaced States is often a lifetime appointment, the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption, and one can wake up in Misplaced States and have breakfast in Bigtopia. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Misplaced States's national animal is the Jabberwocky, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Antidisestablishment Mentarianism.

Misplaced States is ranked 290,322^nd in the world and 9^th in Free Thought for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.24 kickbacks per hour.