The Protectorate of Princess XLII is a colossal, pleasant nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-working population of 3.911 billion Princess XLIIians 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 Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 19.8%.

The strong Princess XLIIian economy, worth 187 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,819 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens can freely debate whether Leader is a great leader or the greatest leader, corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, and shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Princess XLII's national animal is the Kitsune, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Princess XLII is ranked 166,539^th in the world and 10^th in Sex for Most Developed, scoring 54.48 on the Human Development Index.