The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Petronellania is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Santa Claus with a fair hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, compulsory vegetarianism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.304 billion Nellans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Nellan economy, worth 523 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 158,354 Candy Cane Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petronellania's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Athyism.

Petronellania is ranked 241,160^th in the world and 5,048^th in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.