The Second Kingdom of Telvion is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by King Constantine I with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 926 million Telvionians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Justinianburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.8%.

The powerhouse Telvionic economy, worth 89.9 trillion Crownmark Emeralds 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 97,080 Crownmark Emeralds, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

The secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about King Constantine I, mathematics majors learn about new ways to model their crushing debt, modesty is treated with the side-eye, and chess defeat has made King Constantine I the laughingstock of dictators and grandmasters alike. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Telvion's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Telvion is ranked 186,521^st in the world and 126^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 203.24 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.