The Most Serene Republic of Pioustan is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, triple-decker prams, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.774 billion Pioustanians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dogma. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The strong Pioustanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,042 trillion Tithes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 113,629 Tithes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains, young people devote their entire lives to the faith, the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, and people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pioustan's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pioustan is ranked 287,897^th in the world and 10^th in Stanistan for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -18.84 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.