The Commonwealth of Paldean Windo is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 490 million Paldeans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pacifica. The average income tax rate is 27.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Windoan economy, worth 37.2 trillion Paldean Nuroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,941 Paldean Nuroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

People say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments, and street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paldean Windo's national animal is the Arorous, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Paldean Windo is ranked 60,088^th in the world and 1,800^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.