The Community of The Teahouse is a titanic, orderly nation, remarkable for its public floggings, flagrant waste-dumping, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 20.13 billion Teahouseans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 33.3%.

The all-consuming Teahousean economy, worth a remarkable 2,057 trillion tips a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Gambling, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 102,213 tips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, and promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. The Teahouse's national animal is the dormouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Teahouse is ranked 21,747^th in the world and 111^th in the Plains of Perdition for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 68,176.61 Standard Monetary Units.