The Grand Duchy of Outer Plachyberinoann is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 210 million Outer Plachyberinoannians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Outer Plachyberinoannian economy, worth 7.74 trillion zwens 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 dominated by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 36,866 zwens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation, most zwen coins are riddled with bite marks, and thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Plachyberinoann's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Outer Plachyberinoann is ranked 25,743^rd in the world and 57^th in The Kodiak Republic for Most Beautiful Environments, with 897.15 pounds of wildlife per square mile.