The Puddle of Socialist Platypus is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Robert Plater with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 9.959 billion Platypusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Typus. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist Platypusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,562 trillion Rovas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 156,908 Rovas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries, singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age, the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, and the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Platypus's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Pastafarism.

Socialist Platypus is ranked 315,381^st in the world and 335^th in Conch Kingdom for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -26.08 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.