The United Pineslavic Peoples of Republic of Pine is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Iva Aruväli with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, aversion to nipples, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.482 billion Piners 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Männilinn. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pineslavic economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion Trade Tokens a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 90,159 Trade Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Finders keepers is the law of the land, national foreign policy involves significant amounts of hand wringing, pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves, and elderly tribespeople die in bed surrounded by loved ones and linguists. Crime is totally unknown. Republic of Pine's national animal is the Alpine Ibex, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Piner-Orthodox.

Republic of Pine is ranked 26,218^th in the world and 7^th in The Democratika for Most Developed, scoring 84.46 on the Human Development Index.