The Eternal Isle of The Plantain Republic is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Commandant Generalissimo Duilio Barca with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 14.213 billion Plantainites are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orabela. The average income tax rate is 55.1%.

The all-consuming Plantainic economy, worth a remarkable 1,565 trillion elims a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,115 elims, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government has declared that sharing is uncaring, they say that Commandant Generalissimo Duilio Barca's personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia, 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive, and parking's carefree without parking car fees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Plantain Republic's national animal is the tuatara, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Santeria.

The Plantain Republic is ranked 178,300^th in the world and 1^st in the Worst Continent for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 63.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.