The Republic of Tennis Court- is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and ban on automobiles. The hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.432 billion Tennis Court-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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Tennis Court-ian economy, worth 677 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 105,387 marks, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", and former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tennis Court-'s national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tennis Court- is ranked 36,975^th in the world and 50^th in Stereo Hearts for Highest Food Quality, scoring 46.19 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.