The Perkwunos of The Pyros is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Judge Doom with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.062 billion Pyrs are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Corda Dracon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pyrian economy, worth 799 trillion Koltons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 196,784 Koltons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 718,085 per year while the poor average 38,290, a ratio of 18.8 to 1.

Funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room, cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pyros's national animal is the Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Pyrianism.

The Pyros is ranked 5,832^nd in the world and 3^rd in Carcassonne for Most Corrupt Governments, with 207.78 kickbacks per hour.