The New Nation of Pethar is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 24.338 billion Petharians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 12.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Petharian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion Rials a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,615 Rials, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pethar has designated Pethar City as its capital city, all beauty contests have been banned, the Ministry of Truthiness now manages the entire media industry, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Pethar in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pethar's national animal is the camel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pethar is ranked 183,061^st in the world and 8,094^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 58.19 law-abiding acts per hour.