The Republic of Panzer Vor 458 is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.922 billion Panzer Vor 458ians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.1%.

The Panzer Vor 458ian economy, worth 115 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,414 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

The ban on cars has been repealed, town welcome signs list corporate sponsors, chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, and racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Panzer Vor 458's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Panzer Vor 458 is ranked 283,680^th in the world and 1,034^th in Celiane for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 46.62 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.