The Peddler of Based Opinions of M90 Close Assault Weapon System is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Sarge with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10.013 billion Shotgunners 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blood Gulch Outpost Number 1. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient M90 Close Assault Weapon Systemian economy, worth a remarkable 1,221 trillion Dead grifs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,955 Dead grifs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the M90 Close Assault Weapon System Blood Tithe, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man, and kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. M90 Close Assault Weapon System's national animal is the Chupathingy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Alliance of close-ranged weaponry.

M90 Close Assault Weapon System is ranked 12,654^th in the world and 718^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 28.95 average smiles per day.