The Dictatorship of Pyos Ter is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.149 billion Pyos Terians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Steve City. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Pyos Terian economy, worth 236 trillion Crunchy leaves a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,160 Crunchy leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease, what goes down must come up, and teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyos Ter's national animal is the Alpaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pyos Ter is ranked 247,117^th in the world and 4,973^rd in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -144.47 on the Scary Big Number Scale.