The Peaceful Sanctuary of Pyntuma is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Pyn with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.431 billion Pyntumany 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 large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ponzu. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pyntuman economy, worth 972 trillion Melodies a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 151,125 Melodies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, the new Sea bunny Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, and children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyntuma's national animal is the sea bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Pyntuma is ranked 2,912^th in the world and 39^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 60.37 average smiles per day.