The Empire of Pamduj is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fardon with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.497 billion Pamdujians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berckit. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pamdujian economy, worth 748 trillion Aurs 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. 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 166,504 Aurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, and would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pamduj's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Souren.

Pamduj is ranked 10,145^th in the world and 202^nd in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 63.49 flags saluted per person per day.