The Nomadic Peoples of Puppet State 264 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.948 billion Puppet State 264ians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The very strong Puppet State 264ian economy, worth 264 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 67,017 marks, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 354,144 per year while the poor average 6,735, a ratio of 52.6 to 1.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and Leader's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Puppet State 264's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Puppet State 264 is ranked 117,506^th in the world and 50^th in Silly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,826.29 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.