The Grand Duchy of Penfea is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by the Grand Duke with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.761 billion Penfans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Penfrey. The average income tax rate is 45.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Penfean economy, worth 143 trillion Penfs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,941 Penfs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned, and advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Penfea's national animal is the Sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Unitarian Universalism.

Penfea is ranked 84,023^rd in the world and 645^th in the Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,156.12 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.