The Republic of San Turibio is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Segismundo Álvarez Tavera with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 7.455 billion San Turibians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lacarreta. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The San Turibian economy, worth 325 trillion pesos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,615 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The judicial system legislates morality, large areas of San Turibio are not accessible by the public, citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, and the clergy of Roman Catholicism remains a single-sex institution. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Turibio's national animal is the cattle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

San Turibio is ranked 169,807^th in the world and 4,188^th in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,004.21 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.