The Empire of Pamduj is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Fardon with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.364 billion Pamdujians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berckit. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pamdujian economy, worth 709 trillion Aurs 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. 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 impressive 162,579 Aurs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, and invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pamduj's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Souren.

Pamduj is ranked 7,426^th in the world and 175^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 107.18 law-abiding acts per hour.