The Free Earth and Soil of Tearn is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Oh Great Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.57 billion Tearnians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Al Finé. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Tearnian economy, worth 137 trillion Stagpias a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,477 Stagpias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, the government is forced to pander to the will of every fruitcake politician, the official Tearnian Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and children seem to be getting better at lying these days. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tearn's national animal is the Racoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cindiism.

Tearn is ranked 80,360^th in the world and 7^th in Moonveil for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,996.49 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.