The Puddle Jumping Wads of Wrapper is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Wad Sam Attah with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.72 billion Wads 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wormhole City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Wrapperian economy, worth a remarkable 2,610 trillion chewing gums a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 205,265 chewing gums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows, advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat", and recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wrapper's national animal is the slack-jawed jumping bean, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wrapper is ranked 174,709^th in the world and 56^th in Stargate for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -47.98 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.