The Republic of The Interim Axis is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical population of 272 million Interim Axisians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Interim Axisian economy, worth 10.8 trillion Malotis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 39,557 Malotis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Interim Axisians are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks, cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units, child shoplifters spend half their youth behind bars, and hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Interim Axis's national animal is the Basuto, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Interim Axis is ranked 103,621^st in the world and 1,785^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.