The Purple Unicorn of Purple Unicorn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Unicorn with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, otherworldly petting zoo, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.335 billion Purple Unicorns are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unicorn City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.8%.

The frighteningly efficient A Purple Unicorn economy, worth a remarkable 3,262 trillion Hoofs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 264,488 Hoofs, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', warning signs caution Purple Unicorns where they may fall off 'the edge of the world', and nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple Unicorn's national animal is the Unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Purple Unicorne.

Purple Unicorn is ranked 289,101^st in the world and 279^th in Nerdlandia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2.79 pounds of wildlife per square mile.