The Incorporated States of The Tolana Trading Company is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 23.006 billion Tolana Trading Companyians 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 primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Industry, Education, and Defense also on the agenda, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The thriving Tolana Trading Companyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,085 trillion Scrips a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 47,163 Scrips, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 191,225 per year while the poor average 7,743, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is a serious problem. The Tolana Trading Company's national animal is the Beaver, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The Tolana Trading Company is ranked 265,787^th in the world and 6^th in The Assembly of Sovereign Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 40.83 law-abiding acts per hour.