The Community of Pantumaca is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Montserrat Puig with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.464 billion Pantumaches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Casteller. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pantumacan economy, worth 185 trillion pebbles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Gambling, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 126,777 pebbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared', people applying for famine relief must prove their gastrointestinal tracts are empty, the nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions, and it turns out you can teach cats new tricks. Crime is totally unknown. Pantumaca's national animal is the melk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pantumaca is ranked 33,813^th in the world and 80^th in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,263.7 on the Gilded Widget Scale.