The Golden Oil State of Petrostan is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Presidente Bruce Doe with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.359 billion Petrostanis 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Psenegrad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.3%.

The very strong Petrostani economy, worth 183 trillion Troes a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 77,382 Troes, with the richest citizens earning 9.4 times as much as the poorest.

Many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space, government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and the hip spot of the season is just over that way. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Petrostan's national animal is the Hog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is oil trade.

Petrostan is ranked 310,967^th in the world and 312^th in The Sacred Elite for Least Corrupt Governments, with 56.49 percentage of bribes refused.