The Intergalactic Federation of Pepper Pepsi is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Presidential Marshal Chancellor Cipher with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.407 billion Pepper Pepsians 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, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Altum Empyrean Caelesti Trakilacropolis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Pepper Pepsian economy, worth a remarkable 7,840 trillion Euros 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 a breathtaking 687,360 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, and virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in Altum Empyrean Caelesti Trakilacropolis. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pepper Pepsi's national animal is the Old Freaking Space Marines, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Maxwellism.

Pepper Pepsi is ranked 139^th in the world and 2^nd in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,583.13 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.