The Republic of Toobs is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 575 million Toobsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Center of the Universe. The average income tax rate is 55.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Toobsian economy, worth 24.0 trillion bones a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,798 bones, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods, model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf", recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Toobs's national animal is the schnauzer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Toobs is ranked 299,833^rd in the world and 1^st in The Toobian Union for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 202.9 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.