The Republic of Palma Burkando is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 138 million Palma Burkandoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Palma Burkandoan economy, worth 4.17 trillion Burkandese Curts a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,203 Burkandese Curts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations, and politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Palma Burkando's national animal is the Palmese Viper, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Palma Burkando is ranked 221,567^th in the world and 255^th in Declansburg for Highest Food Quality, scoring 10.12 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.