The Kingdom of Tameside is a huge, genial nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, aversion to nipples, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 466 million Tamesideans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Wellsboro City. The average income tax rate is 59.5%.

The all-consuming Tamesideain economy, worth 40.6 trillion United Anean Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,203 United Anean Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing, dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tameside's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tameside is ranked 198,712^th in the world and 5,642^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 20.8 billion Standard Monetary Units.