The Loving Couple of Tr1bute Art- is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Otabin with an even hand, and notable for its parental licensing program, smutty television, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 9.851 billion Tr1bute Art-ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonesborough. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Tr1bute Art-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,053 trillion snails a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 106,918 snails, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 336,867 per year while the poor average 25,946, a ratio of 13.0 to 1.

Only adults may purchase violent video games, the government has forked out millions on an unmade bed that is apparently East Lebatuckese "art", illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory, and the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tr1bute Art-'s national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Tr1bute Art- is ranked 82,085^th in the world and 1^st in The Union of Fairer Nations for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,786.24 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.