The Federal Republic of Pyrennia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 632 million Pyrennians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vancouver. The average income tax rate is 64.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pyrennian economy, worth 68.7 trillion Pyrennian dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,771 Pyrennian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign despots proudly bandstand on Pyrennian airwaves, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pyrennia's national animal is the cougar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pyrennia is ranked 282,219^th in the world and 250^th in Karma for Most Primitive, scoring -198.09 on the Scary Big Number Scale.