The Protectorate of TGAR is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 23.11 billion TGARians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 57.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient TGARian economy, worth a remarkable 2,144 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,804 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TGAR's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TGAR is ranked 248,780^th in the world and 1^st in The Greater American Republic for Nicest Citizens, with 1.23 average smiles per day.