The Glorious Empire of Pupunese is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Glorious Emperor Puino III with an even hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, devotion to social welfare, and labour-free parental leave. The compassionate, devout population of 7.171 billion Pupunesi are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Puputown. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pupunese economy, worth 924 trillion Pupunese Golden Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 128,871 Pupunese Golden Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The economy is booming loud enough to drown out the cries of its digital labour, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, citizens who don't meet government health standards are whisked away never to be seen again, and the act of reporting blasphemy is known as 'Orthodoxxing'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pupunese's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pupunist Cult.

Pupunese is ranked 19,156^th in the world and 344^th in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 89 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.