The Matriarchy of The Teeth is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Cailleach Beara with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, lack of airports, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10.183 billion Canines enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tigh Nam Cailleach. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Canine economy, worth 713 trillion Stone-with-a-hole-in-they a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 70,018 Stone-with-a-hole-in-they, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voters are one of the nation's top imports, the Canine government is the world's largest NGO, the nation wears its high incidence of chromosomal diseases as a badge of pride, and Violet blesses the rains down in Osiris. Crime is totally unknown. The Teeth's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Disorder of Goats.

The Teeth is ranked 3,517^th in the world and 173^rd in Osiris for Least Corrupt Governments, with 95.54 percentage of bribes refused.