The Retiring of Prov is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.959 billion Provian Frenches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Provian economy, worth a remarkable 2,256 trillion candy canes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 205,887 candy canes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Holy matrimony has been wedded to an unwieldy bureaucracy, foreigners "adopt" rotund bats to line the pockets of wildlife sanctuaries, once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks, and coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prov's national animal is the bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Athyism.

Prov is ranked 2,645^th in the world and 35^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 61.95 average smiles per day.