The Confederacy of Tecumsia is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 576 million Tecumsians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.5%.

The thriving Tecumsian economy, worth 36.8 trillion Tecumsian pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 63,868 Tecumsian pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 222,540 per year while the poor average 13,345, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Stage mothers commonly give their children the nickname 'Cash', candidates for public office painstakingly research their family trees to ensure their eligibility, voting is compulsory, and women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Tecumsia's national animal is the Moose.

Tecumsia is ranked 125,844^th in the world and 74^th in Flanelistan for Most Developed, scoring 57.99 on the Human Development Index.