The Borderlands of Testilaatikko is a tiny, genial nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 18 million Testilaatikkoans 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 44.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair Testilaatikkoan economy, worth 631 billion Oravannahkas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,059 Oravannahkas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests, urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate, chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in Testilaatikko City's playgrounds, and sleeping on the job is recommended. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Testilaatikko's national animal is the Murkku, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Testilaatikko is ranked 113,604^th in the world and 1,359^th in The East Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 28,082.39 Standard Monetary Units.