The Eternal Eidolon of the North of Pallaith is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Lavender Frown with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 23.339 billion wraiths are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pallaithian economy, worth a remarkable 2,964 trillion Discontinued Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 126,999 Discontinued Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

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Pallaith is ranked 267,874^th in the world and 4,103^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -7.99 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.