The Loving Couple of -Too Many-Options is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Mari with an iron fist, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.828 billion -Too Many-Optionsians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Looking Glass Ruins. The average income tax rate is 63.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient -Too Many-Optionsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,277 trillion snails a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 129,978 snails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore, it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them, blasphemers and government critics often die in very unusual and unlikely accidents, and jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. -Too Many-Options's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

-Too Many-Options is ranked 290,103^rd in the world and 34^th in Nevadia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.