The Theocracy of Percival Lowell is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, prohibition of alcohol, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 43.524 billion Percival Lowellians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Percival Lowellian economy, worth a remarkable 1,459 trillion planets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 33,531 planets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, all alcohol is banned, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Percival Lowell's national animal is the martian, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Percival Lowell is ranked 88,570^th in the world and 1^st in Pluto for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.38 law-abiding acts per hour.