The United Commonwealth of Plandistria is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Alexander Belkin with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 945 million Plandistrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brussels. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Plandistrian economy, worth 96.4 trillion euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,972 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents, politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them, and corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Plandistria's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Plandistria is ranked 29,903^rd in the world and 13^th in Aeternas for Most Developed, scoring 83.01 on the Human Development Index.