The Republic of Prido is a fledgling, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6 million Pridoans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Pridoan economy, worth 94.7 billion Pebbleses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 15,786 Pebbleses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prido's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Prido is ranked 254,229^th in the world and 598^th in Communitas for Least Corrupt Governments, with 91.24 percentage of bribes refused.