The Most Hogly Estate of Palractus is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by the people with an even hand, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 19.169 billion Palractusii are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hildebrandt. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Palractusii economy, worth a remarkable 4,985 trillion words of affirmation a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Furniture Restoration and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 260,095 words of affirmation, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

The government has stated an intention to min-max its stats for 'teh pwnage', politicians can be seen taking candy from babies, long-wed spouses often regret proposals they made when they were twenty, and houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Palractus's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is democracy.

Palractus is ranked 192^nd in the world and 1^st in Montealba for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 26,944.61 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.