The Colony of Captain Pugwash is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Captain Horatio Pugwash with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 27.399 billion Pugwashers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Black Pig. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pugwashian economy, worth a remarkable 3,739 trillion Dolloping Doubloons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 136,495 Dolloping Doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun, and a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Captain Pugwash's national animal is the Scuttling Cuttlefish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Captain Pugwash is ranked 310,934^th in the world and 50^th in Hippy Haven for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -37.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.