The People's Republic of Privenia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 506 million Privenians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Priven direct-administered municipality. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Privenian economy, worth 54.5 trillion marxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 107,775 marxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is illegal, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Privenia's national animal is the Phoenix.

Privenia is ranked 43,586^th in the world and 523^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.