The Royal Dominion States of Palinon is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Zhan MacVinney with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, frequent executions, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.303 billion Verskan are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mavlio. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Verskaian economy, worth 584 trillion pounds a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,816 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

All telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes, aid workers deliver life-saving supplies with a devious gleam in their eyes, and calisthenics is a well-known tax-dodging technique. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Palinon's national animal is the Beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Spawn Anchor.

Palinon is ranked 25,548^th in the world and 913^th in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 94.2 trillion Standard Monetary Units.