The Republic of Terrible farming nation 357 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its closed borders, rum-swilling pirates, and soft-spoken computers. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.062 billion Terrible farming nation 357ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.1%.

The very strong Terrible farming nation 357ian economy, worth 241 trillion terrible monies 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 78,853 terrible monies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 258,594 per year while the poor average 18,046, a ratio of 14.3 to 1.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned terrible animalball fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terrible farming nation 357's national animal is the terrible animal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Terrible farming nation 357 is ranked 3,898^th in the world and 80^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 11,541.2 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.