The Rogue Nation of The Stitchpunks is a massive, safe nation, ruled by '1' with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.093 billion Stitchpunks love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 42.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Stitchpunk economy, worth 31.7 trillion Scraps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 28,984 Scraps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, education is transforming people into first-rate snobs, 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, and the government regularly crumbles under the pressure of terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Stitchpunks's national animal is the Cockroach, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Stitchpunks is ranked 280,812^th in the world and 171^st in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -89.29 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.