The Autocractic Lordship of Talilon is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Charles Hectorford with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.108 billion Talilonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marconote. The average income tax rate is 85.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Talilonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,904 trillion Talarians a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Retail, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 234,863 Talarians, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Talilonian TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries, recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water, there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison, and grocery store cereal aisles resemble a Piet Mondrian work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Talilon's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the Great Sun Lion.

Talilon is ranked 96,443^rd in the world and 96^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Developed, scoring 62.34 on the Human Development Index.