The Republic of Puppet-000 is a mid-sized, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, feral children, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 56 million Puppets are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Puppet economy, worth 2.55 trillion 000s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 45,475 000s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Girls in elementary school classes gaze longingly at boys playing tag, blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, P0-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, and the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puppet-000's national animal is the Ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Puppet-000 is ranked 82,026^th in the world and 571^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,833.71 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.