The Confederacy of Pentrocy is a colossal, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.796 billion Pentrocians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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

The frighteningly efficient Pentrocian economy, worth 891 trillion Edges a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,809 Edges, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, and elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pentrocy's national animal is the Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Pentrocy is ranked 91,423^rd in the world and 3,304^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 5.80 billion capita.