The Federation of Tingham is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its smutty television, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.748 billion Tinghamians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Tinghamian economy, worth 385 trillion deniers a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 140,197 deniers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The government funds large training centres to turn unicorns into functioning members of society, the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event, citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans, and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime is totally unknown. Tingham's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tingham is ranked 287,390^th in the world and 322^nd in Conch Kingdom for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -16.67 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.