The Barking of Muppet Baskerville is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by his nose with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 13.024 billion hounds 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Muppet Theatre. The average income tax rate is 41.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient a hound economy, worth 325 trillion Purina Dog Chows 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Gambling, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. 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 25,026 Purina Dog Chows, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has an "easy come, easy go" policy on youth crime, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Muppet Baskerville's national animal is the hound, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is dogmatism.

Muppet Baskerville is ranked 123,276^th in the world and 2^nd in The Muppet Show for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 43 on the Kitten Softness Rating.