The United Socialist States of Perie is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory military service, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 700 million Peri 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 Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aguesia. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Perian economy, worth 46.3 trillion Lapiers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 66,187 Lapiers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a bright dawn ahead for Perie, enterprising game developers are a hop, skip, and a double-jump away from arrest, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Perie's national animal is the Black Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Perie is ranked 13,332^nd in the world and 28^th in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,436.52 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.