The San Diego of Padres is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.005 billion Padresians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Padresian economy, worth a remarkable 1,479 trillion deniers a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,425 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, suicide victims often leave behind cash to cover the cost of their fines, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, and the number of students attending university has reached a record high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Padres's national animal is the horse.

Padres is ranked 15,989^th in the world and 1,141^st in Balder for Most Corrupt Governments, with 117 kickbacks per hour.