The Archive of TEP Information Center is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Minister of Publishing with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 10.487 billion Informed TEP Citizens 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 minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rillanon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The strong an Informed TEP Citizen economy, worth 643 trillion Printing Presses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 61,406 Printing Presses, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,327 per year while the poor average 4,307, a ratio of 88.1 to 1.

The examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, calling dibs is an unalienable right, and panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. TEP Information Center's national animal is the Fridge Owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Publishing.

TEP Information Center is ranked 71,618^th in the world and 1,233^rd in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 24.66 kickbacks per hour.