The Republic of PP-1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings. The hard-nosed population of 25.705 billion PP-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 39.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The PP-1ian economy, worth 880 trillion $$s a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is 34,261 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist, supervisors in PP-1 commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, athletic teenagers are among the wealthiest members of society, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. PP-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

PP-1 is ranked 264,136^th in the world and 1^st in Phnom Penh for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -23.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.