The United Socialist States of -Tulov is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Premier Rossovich-Rechyotnik Belousova with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, triple-decker prams, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 13.722 billion Tulovians 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tula. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Tulovian economy, worth 565 trillion Tulovian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 41,229 Tulovian Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers, gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood, the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", and the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation. Crime is well under control. -Tulov's national animal is the Blackbird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is State Atheism.

-Tulov is ranked 231,420^th in the world and 2^nd in TNP for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.