The Federal Monarchy of Pekares is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Alba II with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 14.403 billion Pekaresians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poshep. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pekaresian economy, worth 891 trillion Peks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,869 Peks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, most academic research has ground to a halt, airport security is provided by private companies, and election debates consists mostly of two grey suits arguing over how to best preserve the status quo. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pekares's national animal is the Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Pekares is ranked 15,527^th in the world and 7^th in The Great Experiment for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 9,089.19 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.