The Pagan Commune of Torregal is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Popular Liberation Front with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, soft-spoken computers, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 13.27 billion Torregalxes enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santa Brigida. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Torregalese economy, worth a remarkable 3,444 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 259,576 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, and a vast monorail network carries people all over the country. Crime is totally unknown. Torregal's national animal is the black cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pagan liberation theology.

Torregal is ranked 214,223^rd in the world and 1^st in The Cascadia Soviet for Most Armed, with 0.18 Weapons Per Person.