The Ascend with Gorb of Puppet of Potatopelago is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Some random guy who worships potatoes with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.341 billion Potatopelagoans 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tallinn. The average income tax rate is 39.9%.

The sizeable but inefficient Potatopelagic economy, worth 66.5 trillion Paktontas a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 49,585 Paktontas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, injured workers are encouraged to 'stitch themselves up with their bootstraps', applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts, and open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Puppet of Potatopelago's national animal is the Potato Partridge, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is THE SMOOTH TASTE OF NEO.

Puppet of Potatopelago is ranked 307,201^st in the world and 2^nd in Potatopelago Region for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -9.49 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.