The Most Serene Republic of Pyatingrad is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Fyodor Karamazov with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.725 billion Pyatingradians 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novosibirska. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pyatingradian economy, worth 264 trillion Ducats 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 153,088 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Revolutionaries only deal in CyanCatCoin, people think "siege mentality" is a positive trait, there's a bright dawn ahead for Pyatingrad, and convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Pyatingrad's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Karamazovanism.

Pyatingrad is ranked 18,743^rd in the world and 46^th in Lands End for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 99.17 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.