The Holy Empire of The Quiescent Platypus is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by King Platypus with a fair hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, infamous sell-swords, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 12.49 billion Quiescent Platypuses enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halcyon Falls. The average income tax rate is 17.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Quiescent Platypusian economy, worth a remarkable 2,361 trillion Little Debbie's Mini Frosted Donuts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 189,057 Little Debbie's Mini Frosted Donuts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally, only the richest get to see out of their windows, the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming, and Widow Twankey complains about being "cancelled". Crime is totally unknown. The Quiescent Platypus's national animal is the Platypus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Platypism.

The Quiescent Platypus is ranked 27,518^th in the world and 17^th in Spiritus for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,280.12 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.