The Most Serene Republic of Pirouettes is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Eleos Eirenides with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 31.761 billion Pirouettists love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asphaleia. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Pirouettesian economy, worth 626 trillion orchids a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 19,731 orchids, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, movie references are legally admissible in court, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, and where there's a will there is usually a password manager. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pirouettes's national animal is the caterpillar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shalom.

Pirouettes is ranked 15,428^th in the world and 10^th in Equilism for Nicest Citizens, with 24.99 average smiles per day.