The Peoples' Republics of Pakuur is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 21.223 billion Pakuurians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akaane. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Pakuurian economy, worth a remarkable 1,801 trillion total potential economic production units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 84,880 total potential economic production units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Discarded pennies litter the streets, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pakuur's national animal is the Martinak, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pakuur is ranked 6,321^st in the world and 189^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 13,721.7 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.