The Layaqua of Pioneer Pool is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Grand Layaq Council with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.003 billion Layaqs 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Lane Pools. The average income tax rate is 97.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Layaq economy, worth a remarkable 5,024 trillion Layaq Flimnyas 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 456,632 Layaq Flimnyas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate. Crime is totally unknown. Pioneer Pool's national animal is the Swimming Instructor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Life Guardiasm.

Pioneer Pool is ranked 2,124^th in the world and 52^nd in Europe for Highest Food Quality, scoring 274.74 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.