The Ancient Kingdom of Pedda is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by King Inath with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.794 billion Peddans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pedda. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Peddan economy, worth a remarkable 2,314 trillion manas a year, is extremely specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 340,634 manas, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines, thousands of former pirates can be found peddling knockoff products in flea markets, and superstitious folk make gestures to ward off evil whenever they see a refrigeration unit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pedda's national animal is the rabite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Esina's Black Mirror.

Pedda is ranked 113,632^nd in the world and 58^th in Japan for Largest Populations, with 6.79 billion capita.