The Commonwealth of Pruthania is a large, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, national health service, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic population of 172 million Pruthanians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 44.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Pruthanian economy, worth 9.25 trillion Ordensmarks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,763 Ordensmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

For some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas, and customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pruthania's national animal is the Bundesadler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pruthania is ranked 146,910^th in the world and 596^th in Europe for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,547.34 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.