The Borderlands of Puv is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by algorithm with a fair hand, and renowned for its digital currency, smutty television, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.633 billion Puvians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 63.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Puvian economy, worth 302 trillion credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,036 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thieves claim they're simply working for the tax agency, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, manufacturers of biodegradable plastics have to wait for months to show evidence of organic decomposition, and guilt tripped foreigners heavily dictate child hunger in Puv. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Puv's national animal is the firefly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Puv is ranked 44,995^th in the world and 1,864^th in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 196.44 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.