The Socialist People's Republic of Picuros is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the RCPP-ML with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.904 billion Picurians 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 large, 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 New Brussels. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Picurin economy, worth a remarkable 2,149 trillion eVouchers 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 271,971 eVouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to the RCPP-ML's wardrobe, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is totally unknown. Picuros's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is state atheism.

Picuros is ranked 238,607^th in the world and 455^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Retail Industry, scoring -20.33 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.