The Reino Unido of Las Puentes is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Speaker Garcia with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.879 billion Fuenteses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Torres de Zaragoza. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Las Puentesian economy, worth 390 trillion Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 135,726 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Las Puentesian grocery store, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, and getting an autograph has become harder than ever. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Las Puentes's national animal is the Whale, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Las Puentes is ranked 264,369^th in the world and 12,445^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -301.25 on the Hayek Index.