The Democratic Republic of Operation TPM is a huge, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 397 million Operation TPMians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Operation TPMian economy, worth 2.29 trillion francs 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 Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 5,774 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Operation TPM's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Operation TPM is ranked 318,524^th in the world and 1^st in The Patchean Military for Largest Black Market, with 2.70 billion Standard Monetary Units.