The People's Republic of Tse-Tung is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Athena Hawthorne with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.948 billion Tse-Tungians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Myxiao. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tse-Tungian economy, worth 235 trillion xephyrs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 120,723 xephyrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, and immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs. Crime is totally unknown. Tse-Tung's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tse-Tung is ranked 175,822^nd in the world and 230^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 1.95 billion capita.