The Imperial Grand Duchy of Pristinian Preserve is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Marcus XIV Magnus Dux Imperator with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, smutty television, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 19.614 billion Preserveans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baiji. The average income tax rate is 2.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pristinian Preservean economy, worth a remarkable 4,384 trillion quaggas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 223,527 quaggas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, and foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with Marcus XIV Magnus Dux Imperator. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Pristinian Preserve's national animal is the Passenger Pigeon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Pristinian Preserve is ranked 285,944^th in the world and 11,024^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -456.89 on the Scary Big Number Scale.