The Republic of Tidal Lock is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 17.161 billion Tidal Lockians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 57.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Tidal Lockian economy, worth 347 trillion drachmas 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, Uranium Mining, and Automobile 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 20,247 drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, the government is avowedly atheist, and the hound dog is a protected species. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tidal Lock's national animal is the hound dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tidal Lock is ranked 176,723^rd in the world and 77^th in Philippines for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 993 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.