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The Community of Statistical Despair is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 94 million Nuisancing People are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 58.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Nuisancing and Irrelevant economy, worth 2.65 trillion plastic toy coins 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. 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 28,200 plastic toy coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Harry Potter books are banned, genetic researchers have been expelled, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Statistical Despair's national animal is the population, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Statistical Despair is ranked 231,756^th in the world and 2^nd in 0 fascist tolerance for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.