The Empire of Tellaveria is a small, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 26 million Tellaverians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.5%.

The strong Tellaverian economy, worth 1.71 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 65,855 lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

It is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language, death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary", the Treasury Minister takes anxiety medication every time kids lose their sports kits, and politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tellaveria's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tellaveria is ranked 81,642^nd in the world and 2,329^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.