The United Kingdom of Praenestia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Praenestis Lord Protector with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, sprawling nuclear power plants, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.4 billion Praenestians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theiapolis. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Praenestian economy, worth a remarkable 7,103 trillion Royalmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 250,134 Royalmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty, the government has declared that sharing is uncaring, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, and the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Praenestia's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra Catholicism.

Praenestia is ranked 4,285^th in the world and 197^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 183 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.