The Technate of Pelipistan is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Chief Technocrat Aydina Mehrayin with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, smutty television, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, humorless population of 3.65 billion Pelips are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sardahan. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pelip economy, worth 555 trillion tala a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is an impressive 152,227 tala, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, the PBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play, and citizens select which government department gets their income tax tala each year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pelipistan's national animal is the steppe eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Mazdayasna.

Pelipistan is ranked 102,001^st in the world and 80^th in Wintreath for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,748.79 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.