The John of Tiglias is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Peter Aumann with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.742 billion Tiglies are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tiglestown. The average income tax rate is 74.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Tigliasian economy, worth 619 trillion Great Tig Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 225,787 Great Tig Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

There's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies, the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers, SPAM is illegal but spam is everywhere, and Tiglias isn't what it used to be. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tiglias's national animal is the Velociraptor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Autismanism.

Tiglias is ranked 296,815^th in the world and 111^th in Der Leibwache for Most Cultured, scoring 49 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.