The Puppet State of Puppetalia is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Gonzo the Great with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 13.988 billion puppets enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Muppet-overtaken-Manhattan. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient puppet economy, worth a remarkable 2,090 trillion cardboard boxes a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 149,442 cardboard boxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, there's no such thing as bad publicity, surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods, and constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas". Crime is well under control. Puppetalia's national animal is the fraggle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Oneness of The Toymaker.

Puppetalia is ranked 162,082^nd in the world and 9^th in Libertarian Socialist Confederation for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,769.01 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.