The Federal Republic of Priennia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Carlos Salinas de Gortari with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 13.25 billion Priennials 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pri. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Priennial economy, worth a remarkable 1,508 trillion Dacs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 113,832 Dacs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 368,487 per year while the poor average 26,554, a ratio of 13.9 to 1.

A video of Carlos Salinas de Gortari wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers, most academic research has ground to a halt, and wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Priennia's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Priennia is ranked 48,353^rd in the world and 7^th in Devia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 152.44 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.