The Republic of Puertego is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Matthias Torres with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, pith helmet sales, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.28 billion Puertegans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Lina. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Puertegoan economy, worth 189 trillion damilloes 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 148,146 damilloes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 675,748 per year while the poor average 19,818, a ratio of 34.1 to 1.

The nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, Matthias Torres has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, Catholicism has been named as Puertego's national religion, and one of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Puertego's national animal is the whale shark, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Puertego is ranked 6,242^nd in the world and 4^th in Greater Ixnay for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 10,153.76 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.