The Democratic Social Republic of Pawestine is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Former Resident Tigylia with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.148 billion Pawestineans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Al-Quds. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Pawestinean economy, worth 40.9 trillion Pollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 19,020 Pollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, and the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pawestine's national animal is the Pawestine mountain gazelle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Pawestine is ranked 206,977^th in the world and 2,413^th in the South Pacific for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 30.72 on the Bus Surprisal Index.