The Community of Pine Peak is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, aversion to nipples, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.288 billion Pine Peakians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid and Environment are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.3%.

The very strong Pine Peakian economy, worth 181 trillion Golds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,171 Golds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,399 per year while the poor average 9,423, a ratio of 23.2 to 1.

Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents, and Leader is famed for giving great back rubs. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Pine Peak's national animal is the Akita, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pine Peak is ranked 315,269^th in the world and 16,957^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 0.55 average smiles per day.