The Peafowl Conglomerate of Peacockastan is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Clyde The Peacock with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, infamous sell-swords, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 7.794 billion Peacockians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Healthcare, with Industry, Administration, and Spirituality also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Peacock Central. The average income tax rate is 1.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Peacockian economy, worth a remarkable 1,262 trillion Pea Peas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 161,950 Pea Peas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

It's often raining men (hallelujah) in Peacock Central, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, a popular Peacockian saying is 'wishing upon a fallen jet engine', and pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Peacockian roads. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Peacockastan's national animal is the Peacock, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Way of The Feather.

Peacockastan is ranked 121,933^rd in the world and 176^th in Lands End for Smartest Citizens, with 30.46 quips per hour.