The Federation of Terre des Riches is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 78 million Terre des Richesians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 23.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Terre des Richesian economy, worth 4.99 trillion Argents a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,925 Argents, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar, every week is blindness awareness week, breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need, and Big Belly is watching you. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terre des Riches's national animal is the Okapi, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Terre des Riches is ranked 266,502^nd in the world and 6,012^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.