The Republic of Toothbrush is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Toothbrush with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, cheerful population of 6.874 billion Toothbrushians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sourire. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Toothbrushian economy, worth a remarkable 1,075 trillion teeth a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 156,471 teeth, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, Bat is one of the most popular forenames in Toothbrush, and science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous. Crime is totally unknown. Toothbrush's national animal is the bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Toothbrush is ranked 73,865^th in the world and 123^rd in Refugia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 130.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.