The Hero of the Milky Way of Pan-Galactic Dolphin is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Parry Gripp with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, compulsory military service, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.479 billion Pan-Galactic Dolphinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rocket powered inverted submarine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Pan-Galactic Dolphinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,656 trillion pans a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 197,105 pans, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Weather forecasts regularly cover meteor showers, riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors, museums offer moralization or your money back, and men are enrolling into lady etiquette courses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pan-Galactic Dolphin's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is music.

Pan-Galactic Dolphin is ranked 11,494^th in the world and 2^nd in Bytes for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 400.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.