The Texas Twister Storm Wall of I 45 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Eisenhower with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, avant-garde cinema, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, devout population of 11.222 billion Highwaymen 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dallas. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Roadworthy economy, worth a remarkable 1,090 trillion tolls a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,168 tolls, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks, family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them, and shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. I 45's national animal is the SuperBee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Constructionist.

I 45 is ranked 69,032^nd in the world and 2,396^th in Balder for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 3,415.9 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.