The United States of Knuppeltour is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 16.665 billion Knuppeltourians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Knuppeltourian economy, worth 332 trillion Gruntours a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 19,954 Gruntours, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Knuppeltour's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Knuppeltour is ranked 274,816^th in the world and 134^th in Emirates of Futurnia for Highest Drug Use, scoring 34.99 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.