The Republic of Qep is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Joe Mack with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.245 billion Qeppians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mackopolis. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Qeppian economy, worth 89.8 trillion Pennies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 72,128 Pennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise, city mayors have to get permission from parliament to take a vacation day, and students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Qep's national animal is the Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mackism.

Qep is ranked 41,299^th in the world and 1,383^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 173.2 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.