The Lovely and Joyous State of Snipland is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Great Leader Snippet with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.591 billion Sniplandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snipcoard. The average income tax rate is 88.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sniplandian economy, worth 372 trillion Snips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 143,704 Snips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour, citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, and the term "Native Sniplandian" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snipland's national animal is the Snipets, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is snipism.

Snipland is ranked 9,737^th in the world and 427^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 101.77 law-abiding acts per hour.