The Democratic States of Terlibe is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Theodore Franklin with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.251 billion Terlibians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libertatis. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Terlibean economy, worth a remarkable 1,562 trillion Mallers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 109,625 Mallers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Entomologists flock to Libertatis for its remarkable gadfly population, the price of freedom is about half a million Mallers, turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terlibe's national animal is the Giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terlibe is ranked 305,015^th in the world and 156^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.43 kickbacks per hour.