The Ever-Expanding Belt of Pantso is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Rosie Leggings with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.108 billion Pantsoans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Denimville. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pantsoan economy, worth 441 trillion Pants a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 142,178 Pants, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, and foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Denimville Leopards against long odds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pantso's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Order of the All-Consuming Pants.

Pantso is ranked 287,665^th in the world and 796^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -17.55 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.