The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Petronellania is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. 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 158,131 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Batball fields, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits, and doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion. 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 7,829^th in the world and 385^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,837.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.