The District of Pine Ridge Badlands is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by proctor with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of public education, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 20.333 billion Pine Ridge Badlandsians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The very strong Pine Ridge Badlandsian economy, worth 601 trillion aurums a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 29,597 aurums, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 201,223 per year while the poor average 1,590, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, Pine Ridge Badlands has designated District City as its capital city, and Proctor has just been declared ruler of Pine Ridge Badlands in an international press conference. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Pine Ridge Badlands's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pine Ridge Badlands is ranked 120,419^th in the world and 143^rd in 0000 for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 997.2 on the Gilded Widget Scale.