The Colony of Pango is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, otherworldly petting zoo, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 437 million Pangoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Social Policy, and Environment also on the agenda, while Public Transport and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Root System. The average income tax rate is 47.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Pangoan economy, worth 12.7 trillion leaves a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,016 leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity, judges are all-powerful, and the new Ginko Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pango's national animal is the ginko, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pango is ranked 40,223^rd in the world and 159^th in Forest for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,266.92 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.