The Community of Pomboodowl is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, fear of technology, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 758 million Pomboodowlians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 49.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pomboodowlian economy, worth 26.3 trillion florins a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 34,731 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, and the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pomboodowl's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pomboodowl is ranked 129,815^th in the world and 181^st in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,409.22 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.