The Grand Duchy of Pyrmontya is a small, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 29 million Pyrmontyans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 17.9%.

The very strong Pyrmontyan economy, worth 1.80 trillion Galtos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 62,055 Galtos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, being dead no longer has any benefits, safe drinking water is considered a luxury, and it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyrmontya's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pyrmontya is ranked 241,225^th in the world and 1,181^st in Europeia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.09 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.