The Most Serene Republic of Evermorian Puppet 2 is a fledgling, socially progressive nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 6 million Evermorian Puppet 2ians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.3%.

The strong Evermorian Puppet 2ian economy, worth 312 billion guilders a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is 52,106 guilders, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 324,571 per year while the poor average 3,577, a ratio of 90.7 to 1.

Divorce is illegal, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, education and welfare spending are on the rise, and corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Evermorian Puppet 2's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Evermorian Puppet 2 is ranked 69,878^th in the world and 6^th in QA nerds for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 46.23 on the Bus Surprisal Index.