The Comrade Commonwealth of Tushto is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Comrade Arjen Lubach with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory vegetarianism, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate population of 2.468 billion Tushtoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zwammerdam. The average income tax rate is 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Tushtoan economy, worth 337 trillion Stegs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 136,552 Stegs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Re-education centers are being added to most prisons, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Zwammerdam Times is sold out. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tushto's national animal is the Dimetrodon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Maxisme.

Tushto is ranked 10,234^th in the world and 173^rd in Europe for Highest Poor Incomes, with 123,719.69 Standard Monetary Units.