The Republic of Taperegiona is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, parental licensing program, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.395 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 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Taperegionan economy, worth 96.1 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 major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 28,317 Tapes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They say that Taperegionans made a dessert and called it peace, court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, and women across the country are tying the knot. 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 28,272^nd in the world and 53^rd in Taperegiona for Safest, scoring 109.95 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.