The Free Land of Vylixan Puppet 4 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 8.319 billion Vylixan Puppet 4ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Vylixan Puppet 4ian economy, worth 788 trillion lire a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 94,833 lire, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 306,490 per year while the poor average 22,174, a ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Roosters that herald the rising sun are immediately sent to the slaughterhouse, school uniforms are compulsory, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, and pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vylixan Puppet 4's national animal is the toucan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Vylixan Puppet 4 is ranked 139,915^th in the world and 134^th in Vylixan Prime for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.84 law-abiding acts per hour.