The United Tribes of Petea is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Ariki Heikura with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, otherworldly petting zoo, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.468 billion Pētea are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pūtaputapu. The average income tax rate is 74.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pētea economy, worth 612 trillion Tāras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 137,095 Tāras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Petea's Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region, homophobia is off the menu, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, and all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Petea's national animal is the Tropicbird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pētea Animism.

Petea is ranked 16,902^nd in the world and 414^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 307.59 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.