The Christmas Idols of Triseria is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Santa with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.945 billion Triserians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimmerlight. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Triserian economy, worth a remarkable 2,325 trillion Pancakes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 233,790 Pancakes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,120,156 per year while the poor average 3,012, a ratio of 703 to 1.

Government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them, an eye for an eye leaves Triseria blind, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, and the police have been reduced to using duct tape instead of handcuffs following further cutbacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Triseria's national animal is the Guinea Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Solarism.

Triseria is ranked 112,308^th in the world and 82^nd in The Black Hawks for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,741.03 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.