The Borderlands of Puv is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by algorithm with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.728 billion Puvians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 65.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Puvian economy, worth 315 trillion credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,513 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Guilt tripped foreigners heavily dictate child hunger in Puv, nuclear physics is the most popular course at university, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, and advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Puv's national animal is the firefly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Puv is ranked 13,382^nd in the world and 691^st in Osiris for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 59.08 on the Kitten Softness Rating.