The Confederacy of Pentrocy is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 10.363 billion Pentrocians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Vita. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Pentrocian economy, worth a remarkable 1,817 trillion Edges a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 175,378 Edges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people's love for Leader is little more than self-preservation, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units, and you can touch grass without leaving your computer. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pentrocy's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Voiaism.

Pentrocy is ranked 4,470^th in the world and 225^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 167 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.