The People's Republic of Ciggie Smallistan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ixus with an iron fist, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 4.357 billion Ciggie Smallistanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of OOO-FS. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ciggie Smallistanian economy, worth 529 trillion ISKS a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,566 ISKS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ciggie Smallistan's national animal is the Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hammerite.

Ciggie Smallistan is ranked 223,767^th in the world and 8,531^st in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.29 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.