The Republic of Palish is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Palm Beach Pete with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.984 billion Palishians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St drews. The average income tax rate is 78.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Palishian economy, worth 387 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,790 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

New homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars, the nation gives peace a chance - usually one in a million, both criminals and civilians are DOA, and promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Palish's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cavoish.

Palish is ranked 18,299^th in the world and 20^th in Empire of Great Britain for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,529.54 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.