The People's Republic of Pan Tarhei is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 434 million Pan Tarheians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pan Tarheian economy, worth 9.91 trillion jenks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 22,828 jenks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, hordes of tourists are ruining the environment, the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, and reddish-brown is the new black. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pan Tarhei's national animal is the ouroboros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pan Tarhei is ranked 55,657^th in the world and 2,661^st in Lazarus for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 557.16 on the Clooney Contribution Index.