The Following of Proper Etiquette is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Big Custom with an even hand, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 3.105 billion Proper Etiquetteans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goodthing. The average income tax rate is 98.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Proper Etiquettean economy, worth 444 trillion pesos 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 143,137 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a hole in the heart of every Proper Etiquettean city, graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, and in the mighty jungle the lion once again sleeps tonight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Proper Etiquette's national animal is the thief, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Law.

Proper Etiquette is ranked 300,209^th in the world and 77^th in Panama Papers for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.