The Colonial Republic of Tiorentia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 28.007 billion Tiorentians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Tiorentian economy, worth 633 trillion counts a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Furniture Restoration industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 22,635 counts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government, DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, and the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter. Crime is well under control. Tiorentia's national animal is the snail, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Tiorentia is ranked 234,774^th in the world and 40^th in Colonies for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 29.26 on the Bus Surprisal Index.