The Community of Pontrexa is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 714 million Pontrexans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Pontrexan economy, worth 13.5 trillion dollars 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 Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 18,950 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset, rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, and the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pontrexa's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Pontrexa is ranked 280,170^th in the world and 467^th in Starlight for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.43 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.