The Federal Kingdom of Tepekas is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Séan Aaron with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 5.224 billion Tepekasians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Farvel. The average income tax rate is 24.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tepekasian economy, worth 345 trillion Tips a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,183 Tips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, and dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375. Crime is totally unknown. Tepekas's national animal is the Red panda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Technologism.

Tepekas is ranked 72,831^st in the world and 2^nd in Hannah for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 132.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.