The Armed Republic of Comrade 229 is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 20.69 billion Comrade 229ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Comrade 229ian economy, worth 510 trillion Labormarks 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, and Soda Sales. 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 24,655 Labormarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Comrade 229's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Comrade 229 is ranked 118,163^rd in the world and 1^st in North korean peoples commissars for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,036.24 on the Gilded Widget Scale.