The Blue Ocean of Teh west pacific is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 29.998 billion Teh west pacificians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iwo Jima. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Teh west pacifician economy, worth a remarkable 5,308 trillion typos a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 176,945 typos, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,476,479 per year while the poor average 4,159, a ratio of 355 to 1.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, euthanasia is illegal, reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up, and Teh west pacific's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Teh west pacific's national animal is the typo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Errorism.

Teh west pacific is ranked 92,627^th in the world and 4,574^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 15.75 kickbacks per hour.