The Republic of Palauu is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 46.145 billion Turtleans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Education, with Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Defense aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Palauuan economy, worth a remarkable 7,009 trillion turtle-eggs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 151,905 turtle-eggs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 537,698 per year while the poor average 30,985, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people, the country is preparing for war, and soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Palauu's national animal is the hawksbill turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Palauu is ranked 43,002^nd in the world and 499^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 29.8 trillion Standard Monetary Units.