The Republic of Papafigagem is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 137 million Papafigagemians 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 relatively small, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Social Policy, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. The average income tax rate is 23.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Papafigagemian economy, worth 5.91 trillion Menes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Trout Farming, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,127 Menes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm, crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions, and teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Papafigagem's national animal is the turtle.

Papafigagem is ranked 172,016^th in the world and 3,762^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 116.28 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.