The State of Panorama Ridge is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 36.807 billion Panorama Ridgeans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The very strong Panorama Ridgean economy, worth a remarkable 1,567 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 42,597 betales, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 248,673 per year while the poor average 3,433, a ratio of 72.4 to 1.

Panorama Ridge has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Panorama Ridge in an international press conference, and monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for Panorama Ridgean citizenship in droves. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Panorama Ridge's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Panorama Ridge is ranked 122,186^th in the world and 1^st in Panorama Ridge for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.