The Armed Republic of Percocet is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 388 million Percheads are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Percocetian economy, worth 5.10 trillion percs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 13,140 percs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids, Percocet recently decided against having a capital city, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-perc mansions, and the Percocet Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Percocet's national animal is the black widow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Percocet is ranked 135,633^rd in the world and 1,079^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,403.97 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.