The Republic of Precipia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.167 billion Precipians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Deepwater. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Precipian economy, worth a remarkable 1,940 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,973 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

What goes down must come up, the atmosphere in Precipian boardrooms is turning more gay, guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Precipia's national animal is the gray wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Precipia is ranked 36,341^st in the world and 2,056^th in Balder for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,043.71 on the Gilded Widget Scale.