The Inactive Nation of The Python is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Apatosaurus with a fair hand, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, smutty television, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.967 billion pythons love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pythonidae. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient pythonian economy, worth 708 trillion snakecoins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 118,795 snakecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens wouldn't recognise Apatosaurus if they passed one another on the street, Pythons believe manners maketh the leader, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, and counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients. Crime is totally unknown. The Python's national animal is the python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Snakeism.

The Python is ranked 258,159^th in the world and 2^nd in The Snakes for Most Primitive, scoring -181.5 on the Scary Big Number Scale.