The Principality of Pelbar is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Bison Bill with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, humorless population of 12.368 billion Pelbarians 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 Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bill's Basement. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pelbarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,472 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 119,054 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People are left scratching their heads at the government's decisions, public spending advocates dread when the government says they're here to help, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and the nation's security is vitally dependent on imports of IHOP. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pelbar's national animal is the llama, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is IHOP.

Pelbar is ranked 305,258^th in the world and 100^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.