The Republic of TEP482 is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 813 million TEP482ians 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.1%.

The powerhouse TEP482ian economy, worth 76.6 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance 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 94,264 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 286,486 per year while the poor average 24,093, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.

A nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero, the elderly are killed softly with a song, Leader can often be seen hanging around playgrounds chatting with the kids, and golden statues of kiwis line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TEP482's national animal is the kiwi.

TEP482 is ranked 55,410^th in the world and 129^th in Pablo for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 9,912.09 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.