The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Pretiosa is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Dracula with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 3.009 billion Pretiosans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pretiosan economy, worth 482 trillion gold bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 160,275 gold bars, with the richest citizens earning 9.1 times as much as the poorest.

A bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, emergency responders spend more time in the air than giving air, planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color", and bigly crowds of election officials can be spotted at music festivals. Crime is totally unknown. Pretiosa's national animal is the bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is H m lism.

Pretiosa is ranked 257,222^nd in the world and 301^st in The Frontier Sea for Largest Black Market, with 146 billion Standard Monetary Units.