The Puddle of Socialist Platypus is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Robert Plater with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 10.236 billion Platypusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Typus. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist Platypusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,622 trillion Rovas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 158,513 Rovas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vast amounts of energy are expended moving water to hilltop lakes, there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, and hordes of tourists are ruining the environment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Platypus's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Pastafarism.

Socialist Platypus is ranked 791^st in the world and 4^th in Conch Kingdom for Most Pacifist, with 226.91 cheeks turned per day.