The United Socialist States of Peratia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Chairman Delque Isnyem with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, complete lack of prisons, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.472 billion Peratians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government prioritizes Law & Order, with Administration, Industry, and Defense also on the agenda, while International Aid and Public Transport aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ch'tulash. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Peratian economy, worth a remarkable 2,380 trillion Choels 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 101,408 Choels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every day is laundry day, lobotomies haven't been the same after the practice was severed, strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else, and public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Peratia's national animal is the devil frog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Peratia is ranked 292,184^th in the world and 26^th in St Abbaddon for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.57 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.