The Borderlands of Repressing fools is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Best Leader of the Best Country with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 22.05 billion Repressed Fools are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City of Repressing. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Repressed Fool economy, worth an astonishing 13,282 trillion Round rocks 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, Uranium Mining, 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 a breathtaking 602,396 Round rocks, with the richest citizens earning 9.0 times as much as the poorest.

Repressed Fool watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts, vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres, and tribal villagers hide behind the sofa when missionaries knock at their doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Repressing fools's national animal is the Pig, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Glorious Leader is Eternal God.

Repressing fools is ranked 60^th in the world and 2^nd in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 29,004.23 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.