The Peoples Republic of Plazland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by High Commander Korney with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 15.855 billion Plajians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Janus. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Plajan economy, worth a remarkable 3,864 trillion Oriental Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 243,714 Oriental Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The law says that all Plajians are created equal — no matter how they were created, the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion, every citizen sounds like a television news anchor, and promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plazland's national animal is the Oriental Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Oriental Orthodox.

Plazland is ranked 77,111^th in the world and 1,153^rd in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,758.94 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.