The Republic of Civia is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 8.493 billion trains are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 42.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped train economy, worth 374 trillion euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 44,088 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, the train is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction, foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of Civia, and the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Civia's national animal is the train, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Civia is ranked 59,900^th in the world and 1^st in Paperwork for Most Corrupt Governments, with 37.94 kickbacks per hour.