The Loving Couple of -Tribute-Art- is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by The Collector with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, rampant corporate plagiarism, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.072 billion -Tribute-Art-ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boiling Isles. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.9%.

The frighteningly efficient -Tribute-Art-ian economy, worth 786 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Retail, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 129,456 snails, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 521,724 per year while the poor average 21,468, a ratio of 24.3 to 1.

Students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, photographers have to apply for a license to photograph The Collector, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, and a significant number of owls are being prosecuted on charges of child abuse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. -Tribute-Art-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

-Tribute-Art- is ranked 188,639^th in the world and 18^th in Astral Sea for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 773.23 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.