The Loving Couple of Tribute-4rt- is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Morton with an iron fist, and notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, pith helmet sales, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.058 billion Tribute-4rt-ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bonesborough. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 71.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Tribute-4rt-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,197 trillion snails a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,094 snails, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

People unhook their phones at night to escape a never-ending barrage of phone calls, couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten, all you have to do is pray to get into Tribute-4rt-, and the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tribute-4rt-'s national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cards.

Tribute-4rt- is ranked 21,091^st in the world and 1^st in The Mother Land for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,253.67 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.