The Republic of Pepoland is a massive, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 3.698 billion Pepolandians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Pepolandian economy, worth 196 trillion dollars a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,256 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gossip magazines have pictures of Leader sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and the nation leads the South Pacific in per capita stalking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pepoland's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pepoland is ranked 265,185^th in the world and 4,420^th in the South Pacific for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -5.29 on the Hickory Productivity Index.