The State of PUC is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.94 billion PUCians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant PUCian economy, worth 105 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 11,780 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PUC's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

PUC is ranked 92,929^th in the world and 1^st in Rogue for Safest, scoring 85.6 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.