The Community of Emergency Puppet 43 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 10.079 billion Emergency Puppet 43ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Emergency Puppet 43ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,132 trillion Golds a year, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,387 Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians accost strangers in the street to ask their problems, Emergency Puppet 43 City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Emergency Puppet 43ian politicians, and officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emergency Puppet 43's national animal is the Black Widow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Emergency Puppet 43 is ranked 33,235^th in the world and 62^nd in Emergency Puppet for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.86 law-abiding acts per hour.