The Hero of the Milky Way of Pan-Galactic Dolphin is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Parry Gripp with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.243 billion Pan-Galactic Dolphinians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rocket powered inverted submarine. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Pan-Galactic Dolphinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,274 trillion pans a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 154,674 pans, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were, anti-vacs campaigners claim the government is inserting weird devices into their bodies, the Hanging Gardens account for half of Rocket powered inverted submarine's water use, and bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Pan-Galactic Dolphin's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is music.

Pan-Galactic Dolphin is ranked 249,104^th in the world and 214^th in Bytes for Lowest Crime Rates, with 52.28 law-abiding acts per hour.