The Commonwealth of Tower Road School is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Mr Withrow with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.658 billion Tower Road Schoolians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South End. The average income tax rate is 63.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Tower Road Schoolian economy, worth 52.6 trillion Canadian dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 31,747 Canadian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life, Mr Withrow has just been declared ruler of Tower Road School in an international press conference, Childhood has been named as Tower Road School's national religion, and the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tower Road School's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Childhood.

Tower Road School is ranked 277,048^th in the world and 6^th in Mum for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.