The 90-degree angle of Perpendicular Bisector is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Line Segment PQ with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, pith helmet sales, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.123 billion Perpendicular Bisectorians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Point S. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Perpendicular Bisectorian economy, worth 529 trillion Protractors a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 169,563 Protractors, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,005,656 per year while the poor average 13,160, a ratio of 76.4 to 1.

Perpendicular Bisectorian soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting, forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left, today's secret ingredients are blood, sweat, and tears, and top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Perpendicular Bisector's national animal is the Geometry teacher, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Measuring.

Perpendicular Bisector is ranked 303,278^th in the world and 7^th in Penguin Land for Highest Food Quality, scoring 3.86 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.