The Pirates Theme Park Ride of The Tsunterlands is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Executive Council with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 4.61 billion Tsunters have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ba Barōssa. The average income tax rate is 11.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tsunter economy, worth 511 trillion Silverpounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 110,972 Silverpounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

The roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, a third of Tsunters are e-certified CEOs, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. The Tsunterlands's national animal is the Macaque, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Bellaraism.

The Tsunterlands is ranked 275,647^th in the world and 173^rd in The Western Isles for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -11.4 on the Clooney Contribution Index.