The Community of Penrynn is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, ubiquitous missile silos, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The compassionate, cynical population of 102 million Rynians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Rynian economy, worth 1.74 trillion tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 17,063 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Songs of praise to Leader are filled with coded messages from the resistance, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system, and on-duty Air Penrynn flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Penrynn's national animal is the salamander, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Penrynn is ranked 92,459^th in the world and 80^th in Squeaky Squeakers for Nicest Citizens, with 15.09 average smiles per day.