The Republic of Perendinate is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 12.684 billion Perendinateans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Defense, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important, while Law & Order and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blumburgh. The average income tax rate is 21.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Perendinatean economy, worth a remarkable 2,003 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 157,916 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Code enforcement officers circle wealthy Perendinateans like vultures, Air Perendinate is rumored to receive more government funding than the Perendinatean Air Force, there's no such thing as bad publicity, and a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Perendinatean politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Perendinate's national animal is the Sloth, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Beer.

Perendinate is ranked 14,108^th in the world and 3^rd in Just relax for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,441.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.