The Community of PayJay is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, keen interest in outer space, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, devout population of 896 million PayJay Shippers 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 Education, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hotel HOOT. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient a PayJayian economy, worth 44.3 trillion HOOTS 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 led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 49,442 HOOTS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, the well-to-do in The Lobby are never on time for important appointments, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PayJay's national animal is the Salt, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

PayJay is ranked 22,703^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Lobby for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 76.24 Effective Tax Rate.