The Nomadic Peoples of Palotta is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its teetotalling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.833 billion Palottans 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 minute, corrupt, moralistic government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Spirituality, with Industry also on the agenda, while Education and Law & Order aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.4%.

The very strong Palottan economy, worth 32.6 trillion florins a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 11,496 florins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 69,922 per year while the poor average 838, a ratio of 83.3 to 1.

Women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Palotta's national animal is the Hummingbird, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Palotta is ranked 309,854^th in the world and 611^th in The UMNS for Highest Poor Incomes, with 838.91 Standard Monetary Units.