The Island of Kolloquia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Prime Minister with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.034 billion Kolloquians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Legatia. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Kolloquian economy, worth a remarkable 1,304 trillion klips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 185,453 klips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, every week is blindness awareness week, the banhammer is a standard police sidearm, and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kolloquia's national animal is the Kolloquian Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pacifism.

Kolloquia is ranked 123,480^th in the world and 526^th in Europe for Most Extreme, scoring 21.33 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.