The People's Republic of Repolaa is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 667 million Repolaans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Central Repolaa City. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Repolaan economy, worth 60.1 trillion Finns 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 Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 90,121 Finns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tax rises are attributed to divine will, government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive, posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables, and staffers take uppers in the old upper house chamber. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Repolaa's national animal is the NO NATIONAL ANIMAL, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Repolaa is ranked 21,124^th in the world and 385^th in The Communist Bloc for Smartest Citizens, with 59.9 quips per hour.