The Twilight Zone of Time Enough At Last is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, unlimited-speed roads, and frequent executions. The quiet, industrious population of 1.219 billion Time Enough At Lastians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 29.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Time Enough At Lastian economy, worth 51.3 trillion imaginations a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is 42,047 imaginations, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country, and Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Time Enough At Last's national animal is the freaks, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Time Enough At Last is ranked 239,604^th in the world and 3^rd in Union of New Terra for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 28.93 on the Bus Surprisal Index.