The Republic of Testing nation 4497 is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.339 billion Testing nation 4497ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 53.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Testing nation 4497ian economy, worth 415 trillion rubles a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 124,431 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, every day at 4am Testing nation 4497ians wake to pray for the sun to rise, only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote, and the navy's new flotilla is gonna be a thrilla. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Testing nation 4497's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Testing nation 4497 is ranked 5,167^th in the world and 197^th in the South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 389 trillion Standard Monetary Units.