The Most Serene Republic of Pontavera is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 732 million Pontaverans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 58.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pontaveran economy, worth 69.7 trillion Veras a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,234 Veras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color, childish pranks are no laughing matter, surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', and Leader can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pontavera's national animal is the White Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pontavera is ranked 33,115^th in the world and 3^rd in The Sacred Elite for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,530.56 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.