The Most Serene Republic of The TriCity is a huge, genial nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 293 million TriCityians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient TriCityian economy, worth 12.8 trillion Metropolitan Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,798 Metropolitan Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', and tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The TriCity's national animal is the Sea Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The TriCity is ranked 273,808^th in the world and 1,263^rd in Europe for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 712.25 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.