The Loving Couple of -Tr1bute4rt- is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Owlbert with an iron fist, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.136 billion -Tr1bute4rt-ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Owl House. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient -Tr1bute4rt-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,069 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 105,517 snails, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

City rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of high velocity delivery drones, trust-fund babies line up for places in community college, only the richest get to see out of their windows, and farmers trade ploughshares for swords when military sortition puts them in charge of regiments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Tr1bute4rt-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

-Tr1bute4rt- is ranked 302,938^th in the world and 3^rd in The United Empires of Carson for Nicest Citizens, with 0.39 average smiles per day.