The Republic of Deatestopia is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its fear of technology, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.172 billion Deatestopians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Deatestopian economy, worth 722 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 117,009 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Earrings are the hottest way to make a political statement, it's all white elephants on parade, the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams, and toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deatestopia's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Deatestopia is ranked 14,247^th in the world and 1^st in the scammers for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 82.96 Effective Tax Rate.