The Mapmaking Nation of Tuvaltastan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mark Lirakov with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cheerful population of 17.027 billion Tuvalts are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novosibirsk. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Tuvaltastanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,453 trillion Kiribs a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 85,358 Kiribs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fines for getting caught with the wrong recipe book can force Tuvalts into bankruptcy, janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for, jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians, and the nation's hospitals are criticized for caring more about profits than patients. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tuvaltastan's national animal is the Human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tuvaltastan is ranked 25,651^st in the world and 581^st in The East Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 20.14 average smiles per day.