The Confederacy of Padokea is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 492 million Padokeans, 124 million of whom are zombies, are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Kurta. The average income tax rate is 58.6%.

The all-consuming Padokean economy, worth 54.0 trillion Jennies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,785 Jennies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs, chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, citizens are grown in vats, and government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Padokea's national animal is the Leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Padokea is ranked 159,434^th in the world and 2,185^th in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,160.05 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.