The Socialist People's Republic of Picuros is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the KPPCP with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, hatred of cheese, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.744 billion Picurians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Helsen. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Picurin economy, worth a remarkable 4,167 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 282,646 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. Crime is totally unknown. Picuros's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is state atheism.

Picuros is ranked 539^th in the world and 19^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 29,653.5 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.