The Republic of Pratesia is a tiny, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 16 million Pratesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Pratesian economy, worth 111 billion florins 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 6,958 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pratesia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pratesia is ranked 307,095^th in the world and 712^th in Horizon for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 640.87 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.