The Republic of Charles Puppet 20 is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 977 million Charles Puppet 20ians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Charles Puppet 20ian economy, worth 64.8 trillion Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,332 Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Hot dogs have been renamed lukewarm pigs, arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, and the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles Puppet 20's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Charles Puppet 20 is ranked 318,789^th in the world and 248^th in Charleslandia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.