The Republic of A puppet is a mammoth, pleasant nation, remarkable for its burgeoning hawk population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 8.714 billion puppetians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 24.8%.

The puppetian economy, worth 310 trillion rubledollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 35,624 rubledollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is moderate. A puppet's national animal is the hawk.

A puppet is ranked 165,904^th in the world and 3,067^th in The catholic military orders for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.