The Republic of Terrible farming nation 422 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and national health service. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.123 billion Terrible farming nation 422ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 38.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Terrible farming nation 422ian economy, worth 257 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. 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 62,561 terrible monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, citizens may cast their vote by mail or phone, nothing gets the party jumping like Leader specifying how high, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terrible farming nation 422's national animal is the terrible animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terrible farming nation 422 is ranked 174,685^th in the world and 10,258^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.29 law-abiding acts per hour.