The Republic of Petopea is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 1.707 billion Petopeans 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Petopean economy, worth 94.6 trillion King peter dolers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 55,397 King peter dolers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, bad punctuation has come to a full stop, and Petopea has designated Petopea City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petopea's national animal is the Grate rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Petopea is ranked 159,981^st in the world and 1^st in Peterskingdome for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 70.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.