The Republic of Pive is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 7.645 billion Piveans 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 26.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Pivean economy, worth 269 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 35,219 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pive's national animal is the turtle.

Pive is ranked 217,342^nd in the world and 8,242^nd in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.83 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.