The United Kingdom of Praenestia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Praenestis Lord Protector with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, avant-garde cinema, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.371 billion Praenestians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theiapolis. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Praenestian economy, worth a remarkable 7,079 trillion Royalmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 249,531 Royalmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before, government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Praenestia's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra Catholicism.

Praenestia is ranked 2,394^th in the world and 121^st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 138.35 law-abiding acts per hour.