The United Kingdom of Praenestia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Praenestis Lord Protector with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.447 billion Praenestians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theiapolis. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Praenestian economy, worth a remarkable 7,114 trillion Royalmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 250,103 Royalmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market, extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Praenestia is often a lifetime appointment, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Praenestia's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra Catholicism.

Praenestia is ranked 6,683^rd in the world and 360^th in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,002.04 pounds of wildlife per square mile.