The Fiefdom of Pleasures Island is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, vat-grown people, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 22.138 billion Pleasures Islandians 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 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 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pleasures Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 6,694 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 Trout Farming. 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 302,420 psis, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,328,136 per year while the poor average 43,298, a ratio of 30.7 to 1.

The nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms, the police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime, sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, and the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room. 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 690^th in the world and 18^th in the Pacific for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 75.99 Whatever.