The United Islands of Republic of Perlas Oriente is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Joselito Palma Montez with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 1.148 billion Orientals are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perlas. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Oriental economy, worth 129 trillion Pesos 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 112,635 Pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago, and napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Republic of Perlas Oriente's national animal is the Oriental Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Republic of Perlas Oriente is ranked 48,515^th in the world and 67^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,025.68 on the Gilded Widget Scale.