The Republic of TEP29 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The hard-working, devout population of 1.403 billion TEP29ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.8%.

The all-consuming TEP29ian economy, worth 80.0 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 57,022 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

In court almost every witness is a hostile witness, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TEP29's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TEP29 is ranked 302,014^th in the world and 595^th in Pablo for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 23.12 on the Bus Surprisal Index.