The Fiefdom of Pleasures Island is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, enslaved workforce, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 30.385 billion Pleasures Islandians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pleasures Island City. The average income tax rate is 98.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Pleasures Islandian economy, worth an astonishing 10,721 trillion psis 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 352,848 psis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians no longer click with dating app matches, most people attending churches are maintenance workers, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pleasures Island's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Pleasures Island is ranked 81,316^th in the world and 699^th in the Pacific for Most Conservative, scoring 71.5 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.