The Community of Syris Thalladin is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 853 million Syris Thalladinians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Syris Thalladinian economy, worth 68.1 trillion hugs 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 79,791 hugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, and officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syris Thalladin's national animal is the Hummingbirds, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Syris Thalladin is ranked 212,663^rd in the world and 24^th in The Socialist Republic for Largest Populations, with 853 million capita.