The Channel of TeleOnce is a massive, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, ban on automobiles, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.483 billion TeleOnceans are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 24.1%.

The strong TeleOncean economy, worth 68.8 trillion rupees a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,365 rupees, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Some of the country's most famous photographers are animals, cities in TeleOnce declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, and an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. TeleOnce's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

TeleOnce is ranked 158,235^th in the world and 14^th in The Region Of All Time for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 356.1 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.