The Confederacy of Provianiis is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 516 million Provianiisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Provianiisian economy, worth 24.0 trillion banknotes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 46,602 banknotes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days, there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, hospitals in Provianiis are too busy serving the needs of the Pacific to see Provianiisians, and newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Provianiis's national animal is the Blobfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Provianiis is ranked 303,872^nd in the world and 2,984^th in the Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.