The Colony of Captain Pugwash is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Captain Horatio Pugwash with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 22.252 billion Pugwashers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Black Pig. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pugwashian economy, worth a remarkable 2,854 trillion Dolloping Doubloons a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 128,278 Dolloping Doubloons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Workers have their fruitcake and eat it too, Captain Horatio Pugwash's reputation is hard as nails, the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens, and a popular saying is "don't do the crime if you can't smash the lime(stone)". Crime is totally unknown. Captain Pugwash's national animal is the Scuttling Cuttlefish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Captain Pugwash is ranked 98,290^th in the world and 21^st in Hippy Haven for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,388.33 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.