The Empire of The Platypuses is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Arch-Platypus with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.145 billion Platypuses 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Undauntable City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Platypusian economy, worth 211 trillion Platycoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 184,846 Platycoins, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,229,250 per year while the poor average 10,606, a ratio of 115 to 1.

Citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, military spending recently hit a new high, trade deals are born to the sound of a royal woman's anguished screams, and failure to pay the thrice-daily homage to the divine Arch-Platypus is punishable by death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. The Platypuses's national animal is the Naked Mole Rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is High-Fiveism.

The Platypuses is ranked 287,522^nd in the world and 6^th in Jimothy for Most Secular, with 9.17 Atheism Rate.