The Monastery of Trappes is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 13.572 billion Trappistes are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trappes. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The very strong Trappiste economy, worth 891 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 65,723 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,750 per year while the poor average 14,714, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Trappes has designated Trappes as its capital city, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, Leader has just been declared ruler of Trappes in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Trappes's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Trappes's national animal is the cow, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Trappes is ranked 237,927^th in the world and 30^th in Cities for Largest Governments, scoring 9.38 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.