The People's Republic of Partonis is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 62 million Partonisians 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 Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Partonisian economy, worth 1.67 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 26,912 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, Leader has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances, and remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Partonis's national animal is the sea lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Partonis is ranked 261,824^th in the world and 1,148^th in Europeia for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.84 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.