The People's Pristine Republic of Paimbridge is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Patrick Paige with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.752 billion Paimbridgeans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paimbridge Plaza. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Paimbridgean economy, worth 93.0 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,098 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paimbridge's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Paimbridge is ranked 12,256^th in the world and 11^th in Sophia for Nicest Citizens, with 29.77 average smiles per day.