The Republic of PandaF29 is a very large, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 467 million PandaF29ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35.5%.

The sizeable but inefficient PandaF29ian economy, worth 19.6 trillion chickenbucks a year, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,910 chickenbucks, with the richest citizens earning 7.3 times as much as the poorest.

The internet has been placed under government control, snowball fights inaugurate summer breaks, high school principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school, and grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PandaF29's national animal is the chicken jockey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

PandaF29 is ranked 146,201^st in the world and 560^th in Concord for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,184.23 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.