The Placommonwealth of Placuchia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 577 million Placuchians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Placuchburg. The average income tax rate is 23.6%.

The thriving Placuchian economy, worth 59.3 trillion Plars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 102,750 Plars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, feeling like a winner comes at a price, bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, and inter-species marriages are ignored by the government. Crime is totally unknown. Placuchia's national animal is the Hermit Crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Placuchia is ranked 152,829^th in the world and 138^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 390.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.