The Protectorate of ThunderPuppetEmpires5 is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and enslaved workforce. The quiet, industrious population of 788 million ThunderPuppetEmpires5ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Neumigon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.3%.

The powerhouse ThunderPuppetEmpires5ian economy, worth 65.3 trillion francs a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,866 francs, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThunderPuppetEmpires5's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ThunderPuppetEmpires5 is ranked 44,702^nd in the world and 201^st in Puppetstorm for Most Cultured, scoring 73 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.