The Principality of Trotterdam is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cheerful population of 26.868 billion Trotterdammers enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trotterdam. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Trotterdam economy, worth an astonishing 13,038 trillion bits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 485,273 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Birth rates have hit an all-time low, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, and the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose. Crime is totally unknown. Trotterdam's national animal is the red panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Harmony.

Trotterdam is ranked 37^th in the world and 1^st in Pony Lands for Safest, scoring 269.93 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.