The Pining of Pantalaimon is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 10.125 billion Pantalaimonians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 42.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Pantalaimonian economy, worth 494 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,884 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws, only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pantalaimon's national animal is the pine marten, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pantalaimon is ranked 144,622^nd in the world and 1^st in Glacean for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 847.33 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.