The Democratic People's Republic of Kepamst is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairman Nyektpov with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.303 billion Kepamstians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nyektograd. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Kepamstian economy, worth 84.4 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 36,635 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever, children seem to be getting better at lying these days, theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago, and an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kepamst's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is None.

Kepamst is ranked 108,982^nd in the world and 5,675^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,181.35 on the Gilded Widget Scale.