The Republic of Pasloe is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 607 million Pasloeans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Pasloean economy, worth 63.2 trillion Lumiones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,149 Lumiones, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

The men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers, owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation, museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin, and no cul-de-sac or trailer park is complete without a gambling parlor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pasloe's national animal is the Wolf.

Pasloe is ranked 34,358^th in the world and 2^nd in Holo for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,255.76 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.