The Republic of Terrible farming nation 242 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.12 billion Terrible farming nation 242ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Industry, and Defense also on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.8%.

The all-consuming Terrible farming nation 242ian economy, worth 272 trillion terrible monies a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,426 terrible monies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 295,894 per year while the poor average 19,089, a ratio of 15.5 to 1.

Forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing Leader to cartoon bears, and talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terrible farming nation 242's national animal is the terrible animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terrible farming nation 242 is ranked 145,389^th in the world and 700^th in NationStates for Largest Populations, with 3.12 billion capita.