The Republic of TEP601 is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its restrictive gun laws, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 177 million TEP601ians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 46.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant TEP601ian economy, worth 2.23 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 12,591 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, and TEP601 has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TEP601's national animal is the kiwi, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

TEP601 is ranked 204,898^th in the world and 156^th in Pablo for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 36.21 on the Hayek Index.