The Dominion of PennyPinchers is a large, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 74 million PennyPinchersians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Education, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and Social Policy are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The all-consuming PennyPinchersian economy, worth 6.92 trillion Pennies a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 93,557 Pennies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 458,532 per year while the poor average 10,938, a ratio of 41.9 to 1.

Biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements, heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, and whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PennyPinchers's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

PennyPinchers is ranked 260,195^th in the world and 116^th in Byzantion for Largest Populations, with 74.0 million capita.