The Damned of The Pains of Perdition is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the Most Supreme Overlord with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.433 billion damneds are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 74.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pains of Perditionian economy, worth 36.7 trillion shrieks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 15,091 shrieks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Most Supreme Overlord is the self-declared God of all The Pains of Perdition, supervisors in The Pains of Perdition commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, The Pains of Perdition has designated The Pains of Perdition City as its capital city, and people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pains of Perdition's national animal is the serpant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Pains of Perdition is ranked 308,929^th in the world and 1,545^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 514.51 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.