The Aspiring Arcadians of Pygania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Daryush J Trayast with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and deadly medical pandemics. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 13.364 billion Pyganians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anquas. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pyganian economy, worth a remarkable 6,343 trillion vrigs a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 474,657 vrigs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

People can get away with murder these days, putting a mustache on a banknote is considered defacing a national monument, major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason, and the nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Pygania's national animal is the boar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Zoroastrianism.

Pygania is ranked 13,153^rd in the world and 20^th in India for Highest Food Quality, scoring 143.04 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.