The Loving Couple of Tr1bute 4rt is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Hecate with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, compulsory vegetarianism, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.025 billion Tr1bute 4rtians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Knee. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Tr1bute 4rtian economy, worth 981 trillion snails a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,894 snails, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 382,243 per year while the poor average 17,100, a ratio of 22.4 to 1.

Thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, drowning sailors are hung out to dry, wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them, and the government blames all suspicious phenomena on flying saucers. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tr1bute 4rt's national animal is the owl, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Tr1bute 4rt is ranked 207,574^th in the world and 5^th in The Democratic Republic for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2.37 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.