The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Petronellania is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.273 billion Nellans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth 517 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,225 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Petronellania is often a lifetime appointment, the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, the government is giving peace a chance, and printing ink yields Athyism's biggest return on investment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

Petronellania is ranked 283,003^rd in the world and 5,999^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -383.31 on the Scary Big Number Scale.