The Bunch of Punks is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 22.737 billion Anarchists love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 52.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Anarchist economy, worth 609 trillion Safety Pins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 26,817 Safety Pins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, all beauty contests have been banned, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Punks's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Punks is ranked 197,430^th in the world and 1^st in Kashmir for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 31.12 on the Bus Surprisal Index.