The Dominion of Pantalm is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Universal AC with an iron fist, and notable for its unlimited-speed roads, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.555 billion subjects are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Administration, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nexus. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Human economy, worth a remarkable 8,190 trillion credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 494,764 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Pantalm's national animal is the none, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hermeticism.

Pantalm is ranked 119^th in the world and 1^st in The Iron Valley for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 28,018.46 on the Gilded Widget Scale.