The Department of Pyrenees-Orientales is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Hermeline Malherbe-Laurent with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and frequent executions. The hard-working, devout population of 20.398 billion Roussillonaises are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perpignan. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.5%.

The thriving Roussillonais economy, worth a remarkable 1,515 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Retail, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 74,272 francs, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party, legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on, children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers, and the government byline is that a media campaign a day keeps international criticism at bay. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyrenees-Orientales's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Pyrenees-Orientales is ranked 156,361^st in the world and 38^th in Department Store for Largest Governments, scoring 12.73 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.