The Republic of Penrose triangle is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.522 billion Penrose triangleans 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 relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The very strong Penrose trianglean economy, worth 427 trillion borromean rings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 56,776 borromean rings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 247,046 per year while the poor average 8,262, a ratio of 29.9 to 1.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, euthanasia is legal, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and the tenet of free speech is held dear. Crime is a problem. Penrose triangle's national animal is the squirrel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Penrose triangle is ranked 254,842^nd in the world and 17^th in Shadow Legend for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 106.5 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.