The Praise to the lord of PRAISEGAD is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, ubiquitous missile silos, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.54 billion PRAISEGADians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.0%.

The all-consuming PRAISEGADian economy, worth a remarkable 1,106 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 95,850 rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 276,000 per year while the poor average 26,439, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

Apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished, frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines, and the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PRAISEGAD's national animal is the emu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

PRAISEGAD is ranked 71,599^th in the world and 1^st in Classical sparta for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 134.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.