The State of Petitot is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 36.675 billion Petitotians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Petitotian economy, worth 772 trillion betales 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. 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 21,071 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petitot's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Petitot is ranked 193,782^nd in the world and 445^th in State for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.