The Community of The Pirkayo is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 850 million Pirkayoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pirkayoan economy, worth 36.3 trillion Dollars 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 42,716 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Pirkayoans, ad-blocking has been nationalised, and the Federal Council of The Pirkayo has been announced as the new Head of State. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pirkayo's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Pirkayo is ranked 135,925^th in the world and 114^th in Federation of Martian Colonies for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.