The People's Republic of Plauch is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by John B Tito with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.941 billion Plauchans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marxburg. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Plauchan economy, worth a remarkable 2,270 trillion Tolars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 190,183 Tolars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', group hugs break out during floor votes, an internet search for the word "bland" produces pictures of John B Tito, and military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plauch's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Plauch is ranked 110,596^th in the world and 791^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,008.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.