The Republic of Tourismos is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its triple-decker prams, digital currency, and national health service. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 8.002 billion Tourismosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Tourismosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,752 trillion currencies a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 219,012 currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home, murderers with law degrees can be seen swinging the gavel in courts, the government has solemnly sworn not to look up other nations' internet browsing history if the favor is returned, and defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tourismos's national animal is the animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tourismos is ranked 280,036^th in the world and 61^st in Vickenian experiment incubator for Largest Black Market, with 44.4 billion Standard Monetary Units.