The Department of Piura is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Governor Jonathan Murao with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory vegetarianism, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 4.669 billion Piurans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ciudad Piura. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Piuran economy, worth 831 trillion Sols 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 178,012 Sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The general public only knows their favorite politician's first name, skateparks can be found in every city, teenagers stay out into the wee hours of the morning "stargazing", and it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Piura's national animal is the Sea Dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

Piura is ranked 5,601^st in the world and 1^st in Peru for Most Corrupt Governments, with 212.55 kickbacks per hour.