The Empire of Tellaveria is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 56 million Tellaverians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.2%.

The strong Tellaverian economy, worth 3.65 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 65,123 lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

The government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market, historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children, and blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tellaveria's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tellaveria is ranked 126,776^th in the world and 2,669^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 907.95 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.