The Matriarchy of Twdne 282 is a massive, pleasant nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, avant-garde cinema, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.383 billion Twdne 282ians 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 relatively small, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The strong Twdne 282ian economy, worth 91.5 trillion yen 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Cheese 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. Average income is 66,157 yen, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 223,155 per year while the poor average 14,518, a ratio of 15.4 to 1.

Foxes with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Twdne 282 in an international press conference. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Twdne 282's national animal is the fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Twdne 282 is ranked 9,158^th in the world and 4^th in Pasridi Confederacy for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 8,826.35 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.