The Sylvan Hivə of Turbeaux is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chairman Shəng-ji Yang with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 18.856 billion Transhumans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, corrupt, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nacəllə. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Sylvan economy, worth a remarkable 8,214 trillion gluons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Soda Sales, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 435,652 gluons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A certain animated paperclip is enjoying his sunset years at the government's expense, future leaders of Turbeaux regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, the nation has declared its intention to "stretch out", and an internet search for the word "bland" produces pictures of Chairman Shəng-ji Yang. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Turbeaux's national animal is the mind worm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Quantum Məchanics.

Turbeaux is ranked 179^th in the world and 5^th in Osiris for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 223 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.