The Republic of Moist republik is a massive, genial nation, ruled by chloe with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.078 billion Moist republikians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of soup city. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Moist republikian economy, worth 235 trillion bitdollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 113,228 bitdollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

High school bands practice by moonlight, a video of Chloe wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box, and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moist republik's national animal is the felus cattus maximus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is atheism.

Moist republik is ranked 283,054^th in the world and 1,300^th in Europe for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.61 kickbacks per hour.