The Black Knight of Repreteop is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by His Holiness John Paul I with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 7.197 billion Repreteopians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Holy See. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 87.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Repreteopian economy, worth a remarkable 1,318 trillion Lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 183,204 Lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime is totally unknown. Repreteop's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Repreteop is ranked 11,181^st in the world and 11^th in Union of Christian Nations for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 385.79 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.