The Republic of Tellesopia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.67 billion Tellesopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 53.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tellesopian economy, worth a remarkable 6,104 trillion Sellets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 269,295 Sellets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The most commonly-worn shoes are concrete ones, exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, and all footpaths have tollbooths. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Tellesopia's national animal is the Wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tellesopia is ranked 87,856^th in the world and 5,602^nd in Lazarus for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 1,048.6 on the Societal Mobility Rating.