The High Athelingric of Prorda is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an even hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, keen interest in outer space, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.171 billion Prordans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 48.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Prordan economy, worth a remarkable 1,230 trillion pounds 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an impressive 150,580 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, crops are flattened as farmers bludgeon insects to death, P-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Prordan justice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prorda's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Prorda is ranked 14,096^th in the world and 4^th in Cainitium for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 26,509.62 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.