The Ancient Kingdom of Pedda is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by King Inath with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.979 billion Peddans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pedda. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Peddan economy, worth a remarkable 2,382 trillion manas a year, is extremely specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 341,317 manas, with the richest citizens earning 7.7 times as much as the poorest.

Parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports, the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies, comedians who make offensive jokes have their ticket proceeds seized, and parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pedda's national animal is the rabite, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Esina's Black Mirror.

Pedda is ranked 311,394^th in the world and 117^th in Japan for Least Corrupt Governments, with 2.13 percentage of bribes refused.