The Protectorate of The Temple Guardian is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 5.687 billion Temple Guardianians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 52.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Temple Guardianian economy, worth 48.5 trillion Drachmas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 8,527 Drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Temple Guardian's national animal is the lion.

The Temple Guardian is ranked 312,537^th in the world and 2^nd in Temple Prime for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -10.95 on the Hickory Productivity Index.