The Eternal Greatness of Pelican Empire is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Popican with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 12.299 billion Powerful Imperial Subjects are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Pelicorleans. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.6%.

The powerhouse Pelican economy, worth a remarkable 1,168 trillion Pingucan Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 94,977 Pingucan Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 424,544 per year while the poor average 13,178, a ratio of 32.2 to 1.

Suspicious locals close their doors leaving tourists to suffer the elements by themselves, overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters, it's not mass murder when the government does it, and the populace has developed a mortal fear of the woods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Pelican Empire's national animal is the Pelican, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pelivanisn.

Pelican Empire is ranked 116,257^th in the world and 3^rd in The Flying Fishes Bait Shop for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.1 law-abiding acts per hour.