The Armed Republic of Toals is a large, efficient nation, remarkable for its suspicion of poets. The hard-working, democratic population of 123 million Toads are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The thriving Toad economy, worth 7.09 trillion mushrooms a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 57,670 mushrooms, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 204,135 per year while the poor average 11,763, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, organ donation is compulsory, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, and the dictionary is a common first book for children. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Toals's national animal is the koopa, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Toals is ranked 111,574^th in the world and 215^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 58.92 on the Human Development Index.