The Sultanate of The Korean Papal States is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Punished Mecha-Bashar Al Assad with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.04 billion Korean Papal Statesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Arab Vatican City Mech. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Korean Papal Statesian economy, worth 52.2 trillion Dong a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,181 Dong, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High-income earners pay a 100% tax rate, women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job, the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain, and thrift shops are closing their doors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Korean Papal States's national animal is the Pelican, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The Korean Papal States is ranked 74,105^th in the world and 68^th in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,487.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.