The Republic of Terralyan is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 831 million Terralyans 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 Industry, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 53.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Terralyanian economy, worth 69.6 trillion Crystalchips 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 major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 83,752 Crystalchips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Research grant proposals read like political diatribes, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terralyan's national animal is the Deamon bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Terralyan is ranked 244,035^th in the world and 769^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Primitive, scoring -134.7 on the Scary Big Number Scale.