The Colony of First attempt at a puppet state is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 512 million Aoleirkawkrieze are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Aoleirkawkriese economy, worth 17.1 trillion Kawkris 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 33,329 Kawkris, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, First attempt at a puppet state City University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, and social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. First attempt at a puppet state's national animal is the Magpie, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

First attempt at a puppet state is ranked 63,942^nd in the world and 225^th in the Outback for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 149.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.