The Honorable Commonwealth of Pekweng is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Rodrigo Santillan with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, devout population of 20.999 billion Pekwengnians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 Katherinia. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Pekwengnian economy, worth a remarkable 3,370 trillion Crons a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 160,515 Crons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, and dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pekweng's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pekweng is ranked 283,855^th in the world and 10,336^th in The East Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 20.18 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.