The Republic of Charles Puppet 12 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 997 million Charles Puppet 12ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 48.5%.

The thriving Charles Puppet 12ian economy, worth 69.8 trillion Coins 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. 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 69,960 Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police, soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, they say the best compromise leaves everyone feeling a little unarmed, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles Puppet 12's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Charles Puppet 12 is ranked 97,383^rd in the world and 88^th in Charleslandia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 3,010.41 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.