The Republic of Pride84 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.24 billion Pride84ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Pride84ian economy, worth 371 trillion Prides a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,688 Prides, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings, freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, young adults still believe that Prides deliver newborns to expecting parents, and politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pride84's national animal is the Pride, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pride84 is ranked 173,405^th in the world and 716^th in Unintelligent Puppet Storage for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,492.8 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.