The Confederacy of Tortugashima is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Master Splinter with an even hand, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory vegetarianism. The devout population of 7.115 billion Tortugans 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 Administration, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New York City. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Turtleshelled economy, worth 813 trillion pizze al taglio shurikens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 114,287 pizze al taglio shurikens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government loves seeing the little people fight, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, every week is blindness awareness week, and extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tortugashima's national animal is the ninja turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Ninjutsu.

Tortugashima is ranked 89,510^th in the world and 6^th in Archai for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,709.56 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.