The United Kingdom of Praenestia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Praenestis Lord Protector with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.478 billion Praenestians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theiapolis. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Praenestian economy, worth a remarkable 7,124 trillion Royalmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 250,174 Royalmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, and invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Praenestia's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra Catholicism.

Praenestia is ranked 15,294^th in the world and 847^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,143.69 on the Gilded Widget Scale.