The United Kingdom of Peter Purves is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Steven Taylor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.43 billion Britons are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tardisium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 47.5%.

The all-consuming British economy, worth 260 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 75,834 pounds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 409,802 per year while the poor average 7,269, a ratio of 56.4 to 1.

The government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated', heartbroken parents are urged to "smile for the camera", and shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Peter Purves's national animal is the chumbley, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Peter Purves is ranked 55,706^th in the world and 7^th in The Companions for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 18,696.46 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.