The Republic of Twelve 65 is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 320 million Twelve 65ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Twelve 65ian economy, worth 19.7 trillion 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. 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 61,489 Monies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, and the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Twelve 65's national animal is the Card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Twelve 65 is ranked 199,353^rd in the world and 911^th in Island of Hope for Most Primitive, scoring -74.34 on the Scary Big Number Scale.