The Optimistic Republic of Ptarmigans is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Great Pumpkin with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 44.457 billion Ptarmigans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, corrupt, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Industry, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ptarmtown. The average income tax rate is 32.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ptarmigansian economy, worth an astonishing 11,547 trillion tootoos a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 259,755 tootoos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options, going on a diet invalidates your passport, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, and careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ptarmigans's national animal is the wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is theoteleomorphism.

Ptarmigans is ranked 8,008^th in the world and 1^st in Westingforia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 464.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.