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The Honorable Commonwealth of Pekweng is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Rodrigo Santillan with an even hand, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, national health service, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, devout population of 24.61 billion Pekwengnians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Katherinia. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Pekwengnian economy, worth a remarkable 4,396 trillion Crons a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 178,631 Crons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Those who cut young children are told to cut it out, political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations, old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation, and 'Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder' is a common school motto. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pekweng's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pekweng is ranked 166,161^st in the world and 2,660^th in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 1,334.34 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.