The People's Republic of Prowen is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Florence Hilton with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.877 billion Prowenians 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Priecetown. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Prowenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,095 trillion Prieces 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 159,271 Prieces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Prowen, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prowen's national animal is the Flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Prowen is ranked 259,790^th in the world and 272^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Black Market, with 135 billion Standard Monetary Units.