The Most Serene Republic of The TriCity is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, anti-smoking policies, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 306 million TriCityians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 31.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient TriCityian economy, worth 13.3 trillion Metropolitan Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,523 Metropolitan Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, and the well-to-do in Europe are never on time for important appointments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The TriCity's national animal is the Sea Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The TriCity is ranked 78,957^th in the world and 435^th in Europe for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 3,705.15 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.