The Republic of Racoda in TEP is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its closed borders, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working population of 6.186 billion Racoda in TEPians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Racoda in TEPian economy, worth 601 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,307 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, the construction of massive skyscrapers seems to be the result of Racoda in TEP's mid-life crisis, and police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Racoda in TEP's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Racoda in TEP is ranked 292,048^th in the world and 5,279^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 20 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.