The Undiscovered Country of Pel is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Mochi ChaCha with an even hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, smutty television, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 20.825 billion Peli'i are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sojourner City. The average income tax rate is 86.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pelian economy, worth a remarkable 1,928 trillion Dars a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,599 Dars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, there's always a Bigtopian willing to eat Mochi ChaCha's table scraps, scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, and sex changes are routinely performed at Pel's hospitals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pel's national animal is the clouded leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is forwarding chain emails for luck.

Pel is ranked 49,074^th in the world and 2^nd in A Slice of Surreality for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 184.69 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.