The Palladium of Pd is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 28.139 billion Pdians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Pdian economy, worth a remarkable 5,336 trillion Golds a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 189,644 Golds, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Policies are debated via video essays and tier lists, sick Pdians are hair today and gone tomorrow, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, and the government is chasing the gold at the end of the rainbow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pd's national animal is the Elephant, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pd is ranked 49,616^th in the world and 1^st in Yesterday for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 54,996.79 Standard Monetary Units.