The Republic of Pushistia is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 127 million Pushistians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 38.1%.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pushistian economy, worth 5.03 trillion Pushistian dinars 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. 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 39,630 Pushistian dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

There's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, there's a bright dawn ahead for Pushistia, and thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pushistia's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pushistia is ranked 119,737^th in the world and 1,673^rd in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.88 law-abiding acts per hour.