The Republic of Puppetstan22 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, prohibition of alcohol, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.928 billion Puppetstan22ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Puppetstan22ian economy, worth 344 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 117,609 marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 489,713 per year while the poor average 18,463, a ratio of 26.5 to 1.

Petitions to the government are being used to insulate politicians' office walls, prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate, holiday gift-giving is often peppered with songs of praise to morally-questionable televangelists, and the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Puppetstan22's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Puppetstan22 is ranked 284,974^th in the world and 37^th in Puppetstan for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -174.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.