The Holy Empire of Paladani is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Supreme Bishop with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 4.156 billion Paladanians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holyland. The average income tax rate is 93.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paladanian economy, worth 556 trillion Paladanian Prayers a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 133,911 Paladanian Prayers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Supreme Bishop panders to nontraditional families, burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paladani's national animal is the Trinity Lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Paladani is ranked 32,400^th in the world and 897^th in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 133,911.91 Standard Monetary Units.