The Dictatorship of Pristar is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 982 million Pristarians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pristar City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Pristarian economy, worth 154 trillion bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 157,791 bitcoins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,440,467 per year while the poor average 1,905, a ratio of 755 to 1.

Signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work, and the military will start wars with other nations on a lark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Pristar's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Pristar is ranked 309,783^rd in the world and 1,137^th in Carcassonne for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -17.61 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.