The Matriarchy of The Teeth is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Cailleach Beara with an even hand, and renowned for its lack of airports, fear of technology, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10.036 billion Canines enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tigh Nam Cailleach. The average income tax rate is 93.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Canine economy, worth 699 trillion Stone-with-a-hole-in-they a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 69,688 Stone-with-a-hole-in-they, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", newspaper stories fill several pages with colorful adjectives, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and voters are one of the nation's top imports. Crime is totally unknown. The Teeth's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Disorder of Goats.

The Teeth is ranked 65,299^th in the world and 2,468^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 10.0 billion capita.