The City of Ponferrada is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 25.507 billion Ponferradinos are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.5%.

The very strong Ponferradino economy, worth a remarkable 1,401 trillion pesetas a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 54,951 pesetas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 167,865 per year while the poor average 13,942, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Voting is compulsory, citizens select which government department gets their income tax pesetas each year, the government is seen to favor Catholics, and military spending is on the increase. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Ponferrada's national animal is the imperial eagle.

Ponferrada is ranked 192,522^nd in the world and 4^th in Cities for Largest Governments, scoring 11 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.