The Empire of Greater Pardonia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The High Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.289 billion Greater Pardonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of chathair mhaith. The average income tax rate is 56.3%.

The all-consuming Greater Pardonian economy, worth 126 trillion Nathaniel Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,139 Nathaniel Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, The High Council's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, and national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Pardonia's national animal is the Wild Nathaniel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Greater Pardonia is ranked 27,942^nd in the world and 713^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 862.58 pounds of wildlife per square mile.