The State of Tulast is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by High Commissioner with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 11.181 billion Tulastians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 50.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Tulastian economy, worth 104 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 black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. 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 9,345 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, contestants on Tulast's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, Tulast has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and High Commissioner has just been declared ruler of Tulast in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tulast's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tulast is ranked 285,317^th in the world and 1^st in Tula Oblast for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 4,607.34 Standard Monetary Units.