The United Socialist States of Torsein is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, smutty television, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.618 billion Torseinians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Torseinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,430 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 209,182 Golds, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, and everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Torsein's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Torsein is ranked 3,592^nd in the world and 71^st in Osiris for Most Patriotic, with 91.94 flags saluted per person per day.