The Monarchy of Holy Pandonia is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Cika Stefke with an even hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.059 billion Pandonians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandia. The average income tax rate is 65.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pandonic economy, worth a remarkable 1,302 trillion Dinars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,521 Dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, the new Pandonic-made OS is buggier and more inconvenient than a horse-drawn carriage, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Holy Pandonia's radio stations, and contracting work is a family-run enterprise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holy Pandonia's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Holy Pandonia is ranked 29,197^th in the world and 335^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 254.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.