The Community of Pernoctem is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.746 billion Pernoctemi are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yakyou. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pernoctemi economy, worth a remarkable 1,773 trillion Kredits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 150,963 Kredits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, and there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pernoctem's national animal is the Blue Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Pernoctem is ranked 16,972^nd in the world and 1^st in Quacking Isles for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.31 law-abiding acts per hour.