The Shadow of Your Smile is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 28.434 billion Smilers are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The large, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.6%.

The very strong a Smiler economy, worth a remarkable 1,242 trillion Pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 43,709 Pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 133,523 per year while the poor average 11,090, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Your Smile's national animal is the Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Your Smile is ranked 243,062^nd in the world and 121^st in Gay for Lowest Crime Rates, with 53.93 law-abiding acts per hour.