The Republic of Same Old Story is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 254 million Same Old Storyians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 51.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Same Old Storyian economy, worth 8.53 trillion Capitalisms 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, 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 33,581 Capitalisms, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites, lion-reed-vulture-hand-reed-mouth is how Leader is spelt now, and real men are endangered. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Same Old Story's national animal is the The Pig.

Same Old Story is ranked 89,381^st in the world and 7^th in Idk im bored for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 51.77 Effective Tax Rate.