The Fading Halo of Puerto Plata is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.751 billion Puerto Platans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Puerto Plata. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Puerto Platan economy, worth a remarkable 3,530 trillion pesos 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, broadly diversified black market in Soda Sales, Gambling, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 148,653 pesos, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done", pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, Leader's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, and 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Puerto Plata's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Puerto Plata is ranked 167,433^rd in the world and 130^th in belgium for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 504.28 on the Societal Mobility Rating.