The Democratic Republic of Putzilvania is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Schmendick Johnson with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.046 billion Putzilvanians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Magrittemore. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Putzilvanian economy, worth 411 trillion filthy-lucres a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 135,044 filthy-lucres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, birth rates have hit an all-time low, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, and surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Putzilvania's national animal is the Big-Headed Crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Neutrality.

Putzilvania is ranked 7,181^st in the world and 321^st in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 140 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.