The Republik of Pantsville is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Liam Apello with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 7.153 billion Pantsvillejans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The tiny government prioritizes Industry, although Administration, Education, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Panapolis. The average income tax rate is 7.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Pantsvillean economy, worth a remarkable 1,269 trillion Florins 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 177,421 Florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy, many friends and relatives of Liam Apello have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future, and airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Pantsville's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular.

Pantsville is ranked 16,137^th in the world and 23^rd in Lands End for Most Cultured, scoring 100 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.