The Awesome Girlfriends of LovingCouple- is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the Collector with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.549 billion LovingCouple-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of In Between Realm. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming LovingCouple-ian economy, worth 312 trillion snails a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,977 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library, preservative-laden LovingCouple-ian cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium, LovingCouple- is suspiciously populated compared to its neighbors, and pet rocks are sold by the pound. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. LovingCouple-'s national animal is the owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cards.

LovingCouple- is ranked 208,213^th in the world and 6^th in The Phoenix Imperium for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -3.74 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.