The Emergency State of Republiae is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Pierre Sallisz with a fair hand, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, public floggings, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 760 million Republians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bostan. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.1%.

The all-consuming Republian economy, worth 88.6 trillion Stolzes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 116,603 Stolzes, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled Republiae with a very polite populace, Pierre Sallisz has just been declared ruler of Republiae in an international press conference, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Bostan. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Republiae's national animal is the Great Auk.

Republiae is ranked 114,086^th in the world and 1,949^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 8.84 kickbacks per hour.