The People's Republic of Partonis is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 125 million Partonisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Partonisian economy, worth 3.09 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 24,698 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A century of peace does not preclude peace negotiations, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, they who do not work shall not eat, and politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Partonis's national animal is the sea lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Partonis is ranked 89,243^rd in the world and 459^th in Europeia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 107.34 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.