The United Socialist States of Peratia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Chairman Delque Isnyem with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.503 billion Peratians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Law & Order, although Administration, Industry, and Defense are also considered important, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ch'tulash. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Peratian economy, worth a remarkable 2,381 trillion Choels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 101,324 Choels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, supervisors in Peratia commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, and the government guarantees extra-soft tissues to fire-snorting elephants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Peratia's national animal is the devil frog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Peratia is ranked 226,052^nd in the world and 20^th in St Abbaddon for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -7 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.