The Wild Desert of Pangurstan is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, state-planned economy, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 5.55 billion Pangurs are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunspotgrad. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Pangurstani economy, worth 933 trillion gáts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 168,117 gáts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Standard-issue infantry rifles now have carnations instead of bayonets, the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and the wreckages of bombed planes that litter Pangurstan are highly popular tourist destinations. Crime is totally unknown. Pangurstan's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pangurstan is ranked 8,061^st in the world and 5^th in Alnobia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 99.33 Law-abiding Acts Per Hour.