The Most Hogly Estate of Palractus is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by the people with an even hand, and renowned for its closed borders, zero percent divorce rate, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 19.339 billion Palractusii are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hildebrandt. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Palractusii economy, worth a remarkable 5,024 trillion words of affirmation a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Furniture Restoration and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 259,818 words of affirmation, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 765,720 per year while the poor average 69,371, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Party officials write speeches condemning capitalism while sunbathing at partitioned beaches, calling dibs is an unalienable right, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, and wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Palractus's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is democracy.

Palractus is ranked 332,681^st in the world and 14^th in Montealba for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -17.11 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.