The Ancient Kingdom of Pedda is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Inath with an iron fist, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.774 billion Peddans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order and Industry are also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pedda. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Peddan economy, worth a remarkable 2,311 trillion manas a year, is extremely specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 341,171 manas, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

Children grow up believing the sun to be a myth, civil servants spend most their time carrying out risk assessments for paper cuts, the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, and illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pedda's national animal is the rabite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Esina's Black Mirror.

Pedda is ranked 1,996^th in the world and 2^nd in Japan for Highest Average Incomes, with 341,171.73 Standard Monetary Units.