The Empire of Tellaveria is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its flagrant waste-dumping, public floggings, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 137 million Tellaverians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 31.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tellaverian economy, worth 8.35 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Retail, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,953 lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The full title of Hon Leader Vcte Mgve MF ETLM GCTE runs to several pages, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers, and the criminal underworld is awash with sausage smuggling. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tellaveria's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tellaveria is ranked 86,558^th in the world and 2,381^st in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 93.74 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.