The Free Land of Paidousistan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Paidousis with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.143 billion Paidousistanis enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Psachna. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paidousistani economy, worth 275 trillion Paidousodrachmas 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. 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 128,331 Paidousodrachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Paidousis's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, P-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, there's some really clean windows in Paidousistani houses, and overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers. Crime is totally unknown. Paidousistan's national animal is the Paidousaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Paidousistan is ranked 140,150^th in the world and 741^st in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,998.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.