The Republic of Pretty Pictures is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.464 billion Pretty Picturesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pretty Town. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Pretty Picturesian economy, worth 308 trillion Roses 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 Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. 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 89,097 Roses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed, news editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing Leader tend to disappear, the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists, and you're only as old as you feel. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pretty Pictures's national animal is the Flowers, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pretty Pictures is ranked 77,699^th in the world and 283^rd in The Funian Puppet Region for Most Beautiful Environments, with 599.47 pounds of wildlife per square mile.