The Republic of Portsville 20 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.099 billion Portsville 20ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 83.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Portsville 20ian economy, worth 326 trillion marks 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 Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 105,461 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", funding for education has been redirected into the military, and sly spies try to rely on national allies so that they don't die. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Portsville 20's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Portsville 20 is ranked 12,915^th in the world and 318^th in the Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 5,047.88 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.