The Loving Couple of TributeArt is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Maya with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, feral children, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.901 billion TributeArtians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Epiderm. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.1%.

The frighteningly efficient TributeArtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,111 trillion snails a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,232 snails, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is proudly the least fertile in Iris, geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station, and visions of giant pink owls are a common side effect after TributeArtians eat their meals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TributeArt's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

TributeArt is ranked 283,928^th in the world and 4^th in Iris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -8.85 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.