The Republic of Tiplersville is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 364 million Mississippians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.0%.

The thriving Southern economy, worth 28.8 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 79,190 Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 362,243 per year while the poor average 10,538, a ratio of 34.4 to 1.

Annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous", travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and the secret ingredient is love (and MSG). Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Tiplersville's national animal is the White-Tailed Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tiplersville is ranked 133,717^th in the world and 14^th in Dixie for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 760.57 on the Gilded Widget Scale.