The Tìrastrāl Commonwealth of Syndic Australia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Donovan AnCobasāl with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.882 billion Tìrastrāleč 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cathārcomdāl. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tìrastrālič economy, worth a remarkable 1,344 trillion Tirastralic Decimal Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 170,611 Tirastralic Decimal Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Syndic Australia's national animal is the Kangaroo, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Syndic Australia is ranked 289,674^th in the world and 208^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.33 kickbacks per hour.