The Republic of Puglanda is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Michael Cash Williams with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.151 billion Puglandians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunset City. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Puglandan economy, worth 656 trillion Puglandian Shats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 158,185 Puglandian Shats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation rates have hit a new low, the Pug is a protected species, builders across Puglanda are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puglanda's national animal is the Pug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dangism.

Puglanda is ranked 22,395^th in the world and 74^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Average Incomes, with 158,185.94 Standard Monetary Units.