The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Petronellania is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.299 billion Nellans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth 521 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,067 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There is something rotten in the state of Petronellania, the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper, student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Batball fields, and a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

Petronellania is ranked 7,837^th in the world and 386^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,837.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.