The Republic of Patch Castle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 1.304 billion Patch Castleans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 63.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Patch Castlean economy, worth 82.8 trillion stardusts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,473 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, the government is hounded to provide tissues whenever the feelings of the Dàguó people are hurt, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Patch Castle's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Patch Castle is ranked 25,149^th in the world and 1^st in Patch Castle for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,998.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.