The Republic of Penn Central Transportation Company is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, fear of technology, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 502 million Penn Central Transportation Companyians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Penn Center. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.5%.

The very strong Penn Central Transportation Companyian economy, worth 45.1 trillion Penn Cents 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 89,798 Penn Cents, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 421,088 per year while the poor average 11,417, a ratio of 36.9 to 1.

Truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks, it's best to decline if Leader offers to buy a round of drinks, and the government-sponsored autobiography 'A Leader For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of Leader's supporters. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem. Penn Central Transportation Company's national animal is the PRR GG1, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Penn Central Transportation Company is ranked 77,478^th in the world and 287^th in Europe for Most Authoritarian, with 1,213.95 milliStalins.