The Republic of I Always Choose The First Option is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.388 billion I Always Choose The First Optionians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. The average income tax rate is 15.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient I Always Choose The First Optionian economy, worth a remarkable 5,346 trillion Currencies 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 371,620 Currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Every workday begins with group therapy, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. I Always Choose The First Option's national animal is the National Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is National Religion.

I Always Choose The First Option is ranked 592^nd in the world and 1^st in TERRY for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 312,904.37 Standard Monetary Units.