The Republic of TEP208 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.386 billion TEP208ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.3%.

The frighteningly efficient TEP208ian economy, worth 155 trillion pounds 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, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 111,876 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

People's charity begins and ends at home, a typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows, children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TEP208's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TEP208 is ranked 18,320^th in the world and 7^th in Pablo for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,554.66 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.