The Jingoistic States of Puppet State 247 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 3.902 billion Puppet State 247ians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.7%.

The very strong Puppet State 247ian economy, worth 229 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 58,709 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 200,648 per year while the poor average 12,632, a ratio of 15.9 to 1.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, surveillance cameras are banned, and foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border. Crime is a problem. Puppet State 247's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Puppet State 247 is ranked 186,175^th in the world and 9,659^th in Lazarus for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 42 on the Kitten Softness Rating.