The Colony of Pango is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, prohibition of alcohol, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate population of 448 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 are ignored. 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 13.0 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 326,628^th in the world and 255^th in Forest for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -18.19 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.