The Community of Porystest is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 874 million Porystestians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zoridyia. The average income tax rate is 50.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Porystestian economy, worth 81.7 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 93,466 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, the children of Porystest are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, and dictionary sales have hit an all-time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Porystest's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Porystest is ranked 47,233^rd in the world and 3^rd in A Slice of Surreality for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 3,262.82 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.