The Fiefdom of Pleasures Island is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 26.095 billion Pleasures Islandians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pleasures Island City. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Pleasures Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 8,714 trillion psis 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 Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. 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 amazing 333,956 psis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pleasures Island's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Pleasures Island is ranked 4,996^th in the world and 90^th in the Pacific for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 640,164 Standard Monetary Units.