The United Pineslavic Peoples of Republic of Pine is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Iva Aruväli with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.622 billion Piners are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Männilinn. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Pineslavic economy, worth a remarkable 1,338 trillion Trade Tokens a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,532 Trade Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nothing in life is promised except death and government support, religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention, in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was "Pragmatism", and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime is totally unknown. Republic of Pine's national animal is the Alpine Ibex, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Piner-Orthodox.

Republic of Pine is ranked 2,869^th in the world and 1^st in The Democratika for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 10,637.42 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.