The Frosty Isles of Tryust is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Solaraeth with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful, devout population of 6.694 billion Tersillians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tryust City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Tersillian economy, worth a remarkable 1,008 trillion marks a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 150,700 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 478,569 per year while the poor average 36,154, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

Piracy is the nation's most popular pastime, women who display their ankles are shunned by society, scrapyards are filled with Solaraeth's face, and the saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tryust's national animal is the swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Kalokyma.

Tryust is ranked 301,084^th in the world and 108^th in Declansburg for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 19.01 on the Bus Surprisal Index.