The Nyascendent State of Pinevilla is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Claibornia with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.083 billion Pinevillans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novum Roma. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pinevillian economy, worth 588 trillion Pinevillan Francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 190,747 Pinevillan Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lines at the bank stretch around the block as tellers struggle with basic arithmetic, spectating AI chess fans heckle players when they miss a mate-in-twenty-seven opportunity, modesty is treated with the side-eye, and singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pinevilla's national animal is the Evanian Lamb, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Baptist.

Pinevilla is ranked 142,913^th in the world and 94^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Conservative, scoring 56.92 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.