The United Imperial Provinces of Popongas is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Grand Empress Kina Champasak with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 14.765 billion Popongasis 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 medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pong Pang. The average income tax rate is 28.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Popongasi economy, worth 121 trillion Popongasan Renminbis 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Furniture Restoration, Cheese Exports, and Trout Farming. 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 8,223 Popongasan Renminbis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popongas has designated Pong Pang as its capital city and Grand Empress Kina Champasak has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Popongas's national animal is the Popongasan Panda, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Popongas is ranked 99,987^th in the world and 4,593^rd in Osiris for Most Corrupt Governments, with 13.07 kickbacks per hour.