The Federation of Tingham is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.671 billion Tinghamians 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 enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tinghamian economy, worth 369 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,521 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Artists are pillars of society, funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, Tinghamian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Leader, and the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks. Crime is totally unknown. Tingham's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tingham is ranked 25,123^rd in the world and 85^th in Conch Kingdom for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.01 law-abiding acts per hour.