The Republic of Charles Puppet 31 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 1.083 billion Charles Puppet 31ians 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Charles Puppet 31ian economy, worth 109 trillion Coins a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,743 Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 440,505 per year while the poor average 14,535, a ratio of 30.3 to 1.

Those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans, a positive GPA is all it takes to get an elite education, interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories", and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Charles Puppet 31's national animal is the Animal.

Charles Puppet 31 is ranked 223,904^th in the world and 170^th in Charleslandia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -0.89 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.