The Dictatorship of Paltastan is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, restrictive gun laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 669 million Paltastanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Absagad. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Paltastanian economy, worth 62.9 trillion Dólareses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 94,048 Dólareses, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 506,589 per year while the poor average 9,077, a ratio of 55.8 to 1.

The internet has been placed under government control, the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan, little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police, and public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paltastan's national animal is the Condor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Paltastan is ranked 164,626^th in the world and 8,325^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 56.09 on the Hayek Index.