The Democratic Republic of Panounzaria is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.012 billion Panounzarians 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, although Industry, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wellmage. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Panounzarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,548 trillion marks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Retail, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. 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 193,321 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long, chest pains are considered part of the dining experience in Panounzarian restaurants, hotels often double as quarantine zones, and the only science is political science. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Panounzaria's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Panounzaria is ranked 307,284^th in the world and 3^rd in Tyche for Most Cultured, scoring -33 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.