The Kingdom of ThunderPuppetEmpires59 is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its infamous sell-swords, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 780 million ThunderPuppetEmpires59ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ThunderPuppetEmpires59ian economy, worth 84.5 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,301 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods, no one gossips with Leader during diplomatic summits, cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes, and the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of ThunderPuppetEmpires59ian democracy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ThunderPuppetEmpires59's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ThunderPuppetEmpires59 is ranked 25,608^th in the world and 18^th in Puppetstorm for Most Cultured, scoring 82 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.