The Commune of Pnechtburg is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Johann Schöne with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 2.492 billion Pnechtburgians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pnechtburg Commune. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Pnechtburgian economy, worth 72.7 trillion Pnechtmarks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 29,159 Pnechtmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pnechtburg has designated Pnechtburg Commune as its capital city, Johann Schöne has just been declared ruler of Pnechtburg in an international press conference, Cult of Personality has been named as Pnechtburg's national religion, and the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pnechtburg's national animal is the Eurasian Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of Personality.

Pnechtburg is ranked 269,863^rd in the world and 351^st in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -51.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.