The State of Tirsdag is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 17.434 billion Tirsdagians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Tirsdagian economy, worth 71.4 trillion betales 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, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. 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 4,097 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points, Tirsdag has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Tirsdag in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tirsdag's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tirsdag is ranked 21,285^th in the world and 6^th in New Mexico for Largest Populations, with 17.4 billion capita.