The State of Petrina is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 17.465 billion Petrinans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Petrinan economy, worth 242 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 13,912 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is illegal, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, political activists are routinely executed, and Petrina has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Petrina's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Petrina is ranked 175,161^st in the world and 11^th in Kansas for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 139.43 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.