The Empire of Greater Pardonia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The High Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.367 billion Greater Pardonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of chathair mhaith. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Greater Pardonian economy, worth 130 trillion Nathaniel Dollars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,461 Nathaniel Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, The High Council's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, and national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Pardonia's national animal is the Wild Nathaniel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Greater Pardonia is ranked 30,914^th in the world and 708^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 215.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.