The Armed Republic of Porkupine is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory gun ownership, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, devout population of 392 million Porkupineans 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 22.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Porkupinean economy, worth 22.7 trillion deniers 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. 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 58,001 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches, young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, and fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Porkupine's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Porkupine is ranked 95,214^th in the world and 163^rd in Volikara Puppet Storage for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 2,700.76 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.