The Empire of Pikim is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 683 million Pikimians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Pikimian economy, worth 14.7 trillion PIKMINIEMS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 21,523 PIKMINIEMS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, homophobia is off the menu, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pikim's national animal is the cat with no ears, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pikim is ranked 60,634^th in the world and 28^th in Callista for Most Beautiful Environments, with 642.85 pounds of wildlife per square mile.