The Republic of Taperegiona is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, fear of technology, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The devout population of 3.33 billion Taperegionans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Taperegionan economy, worth 92.7 trillion Tapes 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 27,844 Tapes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, soldiers are issued comics about superheroes punching unflattering caricatures of their enemies, and TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Taperegiona's national animal is the Tape, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Taperegiona is ranked 122,412^th in the world and 28^th in Taperegiona for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 964.53 on the Gilded Widget Scale.