The Cyrannus Goat Cult of Pallay is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Sopheriel the Angelic Foreteller with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, lack of airports, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 7.559 billion Pallians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aretrem. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pallayian economy, worth 985 trillion cubits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 130,415 cubits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers, senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and astronauts take one small step for Pallay and one giant step backward from confrontation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pallay's national animal is the holy goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Pantheon.

Pallay is ranked 12,602^nd in the world and 1^st in Cyrannus Star System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.05 law-abiding acts per hour.