The Republic of Peatika is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, pith helmet sales, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.642 billion Peatikans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Peatikan economy, worth 301 trillion luminas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 183,330 luminas, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,584,598 per year while the poor average 3,465, a ratio of 457 to 1.

Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds, Peatika City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids, and wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Peatika's national animal is the koala, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Peatika is ranked 50,872^nd in the world and 179^th in Concord for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,850.84 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.