The United Socialist States of Perie is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Romulus Winters with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 845 million Peri are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aguesia. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Perian economy, worth 72.4 trillion Lapiers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 85,626 Lapiers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Etiquette guides advise visitors to 'grovel gracefully', children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia, and a positive pregnancy test doubles as a visa. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Perie's national animal is the Black Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Perie is ranked 14,964^th in the world and 28^th in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 8,902.36 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.