The Failed Economy Ambassador of Trecdom is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Big Tex with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 31.967 billion Trekers 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Texas. The average income tax rate is 87.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Trecdomian economy, worth a remarkable 3,156 trillion Texan Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 98,736 Texan Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit, athletes are renowned for being the best at maths, the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, and the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trecdom's national animal is the SeaLion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Ad astra per aspera.

Trecdom is ranked 5,908^th in the world and 53^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Corrupt Governments, with 206.34 kickbacks per hour.