The Republic of P565 is a large, genial nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 177 million P565ians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The P565ian economy, worth 5.91 trillion złoties a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,371 złoties, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, there's a bright dawn ahead for P565, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. P565's national animal is the python, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

P565 is ranked 203,194^th in the world and 764^th in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -1.18 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.