The Confederated Communes of Tessellane is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Grand Loom with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.496 billion Tessars are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Tessellanean economy, worth 220 trillion Knits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 147,092 Knits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every school is receiving a brand new eraser, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, and families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tessellane's national animal is the Silvertail Weaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tessellane is ranked 316,603^rd in the world and 532^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,354.64 Standard Monetary Units.