The Republic of Qep is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Joe Mack with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.159 billion Qeppians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mackopolis. The average income tax rate is 72.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Qeppian economy, worth 83.9 trillion Pennies 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 Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 72,388 Pennies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Joe Mack has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences, when their backs are against the walls Qeppians look out for gay men, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, and genetic research has been halted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Qep's national animal is the Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mackism.

Qep is ranked 43,547^th in the world and 1,380^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,875.8 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.