The Commonwealth of Padia is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 656 million Padians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Don't Fer'nt. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.6%.

The powerhouse Padian economy, worth 55.7 trillion Mentouns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,980 Mentouns, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

It's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Padia offered the words "peace be upon you", artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party, and murderers and thieves claim divine inspiration to avoid prosecution. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Padia's national animal is the Lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Padia is ranked 112,170^th in the world and 48^th in Aureum locum for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,360.35 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.