The Empire of Percitara is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nightmare·Worries with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.404 billion Percitarans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Miestila. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Percitaran economy, worth 273 trillion tabors 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 an impressive 113,826 tabors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, students spend the school year learning how great the education system is, and public executions just aren't the cheery spectacles they once were. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Percitara's national animal is the Nine headed bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Percitaraism.

Percitara is ranked 25,587^th in the world and 975^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 243.35 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.