The Confederacy of Pingtong is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working population of 153 million Pingtongians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Pingtongian economy, worth 13.5 trillion liangs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 88,292 liangs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 429,063 per year while the poor average 10,493, a ratio of 40.9 to 1.

Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame, teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pingtong's national animal is the fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pingtong is ranked 88,201^st in the world and 1,162^nd in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.44 law-abiding acts per hour.