The Pretty Reckless of Tupelope is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 29.76 billion Tupelopeans 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tupelope City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tupelopean economy, worth an astonishing 17,539 trillion galds a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 589,356 galds, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 5,229,170 per year while the poor average 9,187, a ratio of 569 to 1.

It is often said that only Leader could bring down Dàguó, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom, and a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Tupelope's national animal is the polar bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Tupelope is ranked 17,541^st in the world and 1^st in i hate everyone for Smartest Citizens, with 72.51 quips per hour.