The Republic of Inner Cord Ponia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 650 million Inner Cord Ponians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Dingwall. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Inner Cord Ponian economy, worth 22.1 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,958 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels, and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Inner Cord Ponia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Inner Cord Ponia is ranked 72,398^th in the world and 1,497^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 106.31 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.