The Republic of -Pyra is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its enforced nudity, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 838 million -Pyrans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant -Pyran economy, worth 6.02 trillion Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 7,187 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, military spending recently hit a new high, and the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Pyra's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

-Pyra is ranked 245,266^th in the world and 76^th in Sertia for Least Corrupt Governments, with 90.94 percentage of bribes refused.