The Oppressed Peoples of Ligon Swamplands is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Beacon of Freedom with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.589 billion Ligon Swamplanders are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Spirituality are also considered important, while Social Policy and Education receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Underground Chamber. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ligon Swamplandsian economy, worth a remarkable 5,060 trillion Reeds 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an amazing 305,076 Reeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked', the clergy of Truth remains a single-sex institution, Ligon Swamplands isn't what it used to be, and many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Ligon Swamplands's national animal is the Swamp Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Truth.

Ligon Swamplands is ranked 269,221^st in the world and 9,990^th in Osiris for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -9.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.