The Republic of The Pepper Coast is a mid-sized, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-working population of 90 million Pepper Coastians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.4%.

The very strong Pepper Coastian economy, worth 5.78 trillion Orchidas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 64,193 Orchidas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 185,912 per year while the poor average 17,565, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. The Pepper Coast's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

The Pepper Coast is ranked 115,038^th in the world and 402^nd in Concord for Most Developed, scoring 59 on the Human Development Index.