The Damned of The Pains of Perdition is a massive, genial nation, ruled by the Most Supreme Overlord with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.387 billion damneds are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pains of Perditionian economy, worth 35.1 trillion shrieks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 14,699 shrieks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Most Supreme Overlord has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, The Most Supreme Overlord is the self-declared God of all The Pains of Perdition, supervisors in The Pains of Perdition commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, and The Pains of Perdition has designated The Pains of Perdition City as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pains of Perdition's national animal is the serpant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Pains of Perdition is ranked 244,348^th in the world and 1,280^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.49 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.