The Borderlands of The Tetra Core is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Supreme Lion with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.832 billion Tetra Coreans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Core. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tetra Corean economy, worth 443 trillion energy banks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 115,674 energy banks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, and tabloids coo over The Supreme Lion's expected child. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Tetra Core's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

The Tetra Core is ranked 124,025^th in the world and 4,537^th in Osiris for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,557.11 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.