The Free Land of Torlland is a tiny, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14 million Torllandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 54.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Torllandian economy, worth 125 billion Schneeballs 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, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. 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 8,941 Schneeballs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Torlland's national animal is the Snow bunny.

Torlland is ranked 298,129^th in the world and 21^st in Mazedornia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -7.52 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.