The Dream of Toney River is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its smutty television, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 37.677 billion Toney River-rats 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunrise. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The Toney Riverian economy, worth a remarkable 6,652 trillion library books a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,556 library books, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vaccinations are mandatory, grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving, travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, and celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by Leader. Crime is totally unknown. Toney River's national animal is the urban fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Toney River is ranked 291,254^th in the world and 33^rd in The Maritimes for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.18 kickbacks per hour.