The Soviet Republics of Tropical Coast is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Yusuf Shaabi with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.239 billion Arabs are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dubai. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tropical Coastian economy, worth 95.3 trillion Dinars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales and Tourism. Average income is 76,954 Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war, and people's charity begins and ends at home. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tropical Coast's national animal is the Arabian Mau, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tropical Coast is ranked 84,081^st in the world and 1,828^th in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 76,954.22 Standard Monetary Units.