The Basic Ecclesial Communities of Pasong Tirad is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Superior General with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 28.945 billion Tiradics are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pilar. The income tax rate is 100%.

The very strong Tiradic economy, worth a remarkable 4,807 trillion Tiradic pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an impressive 166,092 Tiradic pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, the PTBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays, disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire, and there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Tiradic grocery store. Crime is totally unknown. Pasong Tirad's national animal is the Tiradic good dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Superior Liberationism.

Pasong Tirad is ranked 290,911^th in the world and 8^th in Sapientia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -67.54 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.