The Republic of The Interim Axis is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 152 million Interim Axisians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Interim Axisian economy, worth 5.00 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 major contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 32,907 Malotis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Praying at the office can see you terminated for napping, vacationers and business travelers are often warned that they may lose the right to vote if they spend too much time overseas, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. 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 204,895^th in the world and 2,492^nd in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 2.92 kickbacks per hour.