The Mode of Transportation is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pete Buttigieg with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 26.503 billion urbanists are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of downtown. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient urbanist economy, worth a remarkable 6,597 trillion infrastructures a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Gambling, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 248,933 infrastructures, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under, the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, and scientists take credit every time it rains in Seinfeld. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Transportation's national animal is the high-speed rail, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is smart growth.

Transportation is ranked 328,619^th in the world and 42^nd in Seinfeld for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -19.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.