The Council Republic of Tercainia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by the Tercainian Peoples Council with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.783 billion Tercainians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Thetroit. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tercainian economy, worth 148 trillion dextrinoles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 83,051 dextrinoles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Tercainian Peoples Council's reputation is hard as nails, the dartboard at the Tercainian Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of the Tercainian Peoples Council's face, Tercainia has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, and the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tercainia's national animal is the warbling blue tit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tercainia is ranked 17,304^th in the world and 433^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,127.65 pounds of wildlife per square mile.