The Colony of Peina is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 34.091 billion Peinans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The large, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Spirituality, Defense, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.4%.

The thriving Peinan economy, worth 959 trillion pound sterlings a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail and Trout Farming. Average income is 28,143 pound sterlings, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 81,505 per year while the poor average 7,700, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, almost all of the nation's water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices, education and welfare spending are on the rise, and eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Peina's national animal is the goose, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Peina is ranked 258,055^th in the world and 13^th in The Wild West for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -3.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.