The Community of Pantumaca is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Montserrat Puig with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.402 billion Pantumaches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Casteller. The average income tax rate is 65.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pantumacan economy, worth 173 trillion pebbles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Gambling, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 123,770 pebbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams, expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, and a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero. Crime is totally unknown. Pantumaca's national animal is the melk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pantumaca is ranked 103,369^th in the world and 83^rd in Refugia for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 42,453.35 Standard Monetary Units.