The United Kingdom of Peter Purves is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Steven Taylor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.393 billion Britons are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tardisium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.7%.

The powerhouse British economy, worth 256 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 75,514 pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 312,488 per year while the poor average 11,980, a ratio of 26.1 to 1.

A cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country, the government spends millions of tax pounds on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools, concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods, and the chumbley stadiums are open 24/7. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Peter Purves's national animal is the chumbley, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Peter Purves is ranked 30,503^rd in the world and 6^th in The Companions for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 6,155.43 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.