The Republic of Tape Farmer 5 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.799 billion Tape Farmer 5ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Tape Farmer 5ian economy, worth 427 trillion francs a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,408 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and Arms Manufacturing facilities are being turned into fox habitats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tape Farmer 5's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tape Farmer 5 is ranked 257,615^th in the world and 438^th in Taperegiona for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 43.47 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.