The Republic of Gimmick Puppet of Strings is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its smutty television, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.122 billion Gimmick Puppet of Stringsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gimmick Puppet of Stringsian economy, worth 526 trillion Cards a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,638 Cards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, and Gimmick Puppet of Strings shot first. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gimmick Puppet of Strings's national animal is the Kuriboh, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gimmick Puppet of Strings is ranked 274,190^th in the world and 8,456^th in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.45 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.