The People's Holy Cyber-Monarchy of Pancakas is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Hungry Jack with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, otherworldly petting zoo, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.97 billion Pancakains 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Griddle. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pancakasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,281 trillion Flap Jacks 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. 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 142,815 Flap Jacks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups, death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pancakas's national animal is the Kodiak, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Log Cabin Cult.

Pancakas is ranked 87,128^th in the world and 768^th in Europe for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.