The Commonwealth of Tranquility Antioch is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Sovereign with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.517 billion Tranquility Antiochians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mesopotamia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Tranquility Antiochian economy, worth a remarkable 2,211 trillion Gold coins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 142,547 Gold coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 438,793 per year while the poor average 35,774, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Every child sleeps with a gun to protect themselves from the monster under the bed, diplomats in Tranquility Antioch are furious at constant police surveillance, meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise, and produce markets have tanked in pursuit of the perfect potato. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tranquility Antioch's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Melchizedek.

Tranquility Antioch is ranked 109,629^th in the world and 5^th in Ancient for Rudest Citizens, with 51.43 insults per minute.