The Republic of Transhalva is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Alek Dezer with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 4.482 billion Transhalvians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Psyan. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Transhalvian economy, worth 870 trillion Dinjaras a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 194,237 Dinjaras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs, large areas of Transhalva are not accessible by the public, mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of Bisons and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, and afternoon delight in care homes is restricted to a serving of spotted dick at 3pm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Transhalva's national animal is the Bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Transhalva is ranked 290,261^st in the world and 232^nd in The League for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.