The Confederacy of Pentrocy is a colossal, socially progressive nation, renowned for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.703 billion Pentrocians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Vita. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pentrocian economy, worth 866 trillion Edges a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 151,918 Edges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Pentrocian lands, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, and it is illegal to make racist remarks in public. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pentrocy's national animal is the Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pentrocy is ranked 7,342^nd in the world and 380^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 138 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.