The Purple flowers of Purple 5 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Purple with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.95 billion Purple 5ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flowerville. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Purple 5ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,504 trillion Petals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 320,022 Petals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

A few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to The Purple, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins, and the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purple 5's national animal is the Honey bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Purple.

Purple 5 is ranked 284,571^st in the world and 268^th in Nerdlandia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 15.67 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.