The Federation of Provence Town is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 619 million Provence town tax payers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thou may fall. The average income tax rate is 75.0%.

The strong Provence Town tax payer economy, worth 33.4 trillion Us Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,905 Us Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, and a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Provence Town's national animal is the Black capped chickadee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Provence Town is ranked 17,347^th in the world and 77^th in The Free Nations Region for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,089.04 pounds of wildlife per square mile.