The Republic of TEP334 is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 837 million TEP334ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.6%.

The powerhouse TEP334ian economy, worth 65.1 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,742 pounds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 292,736 per year while the poor average 14,396, a ratio of 20.3 to 1.

Understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, and among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TEP334's national animal is the kiwi, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

TEP334 is ranked 72,750^th in the world and 287^th in Pablo for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 7,236 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.