The Republic of Potato planes is a mid-sized, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, parental licensing program, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 68 million Potato planes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 20.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Potato planesian economy, worth 3.17 trillion Potato coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 46,688 Potato coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies, commemoration of the Great The Republic of UMS War costs almost as much as the war itself, and people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Potato planes's national animal is the Dachshund, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Potato planes is ranked 173,361^st in the world and 4^th in The Republic of UMS for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,181.64 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.