The Peaceful Sanctuary of Pyntuma is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Pyn with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.354 billion Pyntumany are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ponzu. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pyntuman economy, worth 959 trillion Melodies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 150,966 Melodies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, the new Bunny Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyntuma's national animal is the Bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pyntuma is ranked 204,494^th in the world and 875^th in Europeia for Highest Drug Use, scoring 95.14 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.