The Dictatorship of Papalandia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Father with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, sprawling nuclear power plants, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.563 billion Papalandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Papagrad. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The all-consuming Papalandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,529 trillion Papas 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 152,701 Papas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, the world outside is only known of in folklore, stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, and pro-democracy regime change has been avoided. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Papalandia's national animal is the Millipede, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fatherism.

Papalandia is ranked 268,589^th in the world and 3,752^nd in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -233.76 on the Scary Big Number Scale.