The Free Land of Penezia is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 476 million Penezians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The thriving Penezian economy, worth 31.8 trillion Penezian Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 66,721 Penezian Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 236,174 per year while the poor average 13,609, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem. Penezia's national animal is the Deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Penezia is ranked 198,343^rd in the world and 4,284^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -1.79 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.